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Section 11-21 Gang activity prohibited.
(a) As used in this section, the term "street gang" or "gang" means as any ongoing organization, association in fact or group of three (3) or more persons, whether formally or informally organized, or any subgroup or affiliated group thereof, having as one (1) of its activities the commission of criminal or illegal acts, including, but not limited to, illegal drug distribution, and whose members individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal or illegal acts, and which group frequently, though not necessarily, claims one (1) or more particular geographic territory or turf as its exclusive realm of influence and operations. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person within the City of Thomasville to knowingly use, display or wear colors, emblems or insignia on or about their person in public for the purposes of promoting any gang or street gang activity. (c) It shall be unlawful for any person within the City of Thomasville to knowingly do or make any act, utterance, gesture or display for the purpose of communicating membership of, affiliation with, association with, support of, identification with, sympathy toward or affront or insult toward any gang or street gang, or with actual knowledge that the subject act, utterance, gesture or display is used and recognized as communicative of street gang membership, affiliation, association, support, identification, sympathy or affront. (d) Penalty. Any person who is in violation of this section shall be subject to such punishment as the municipal court of the City of Thomasville may impose, subject to all limitations contained in the Charter of the city. (Ord. of 1-8-96(1), I)
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