Anybody here familiar with legal case law, from state to state, regarding “public places” and private property and private property being considered a public place?
I am not familiar with the case law but seems to me were this to include washing things on your property, publicly, the ordinance would say exactly that i.e. no washing in public of your property or person.
One could make the case perhaps the area between the city street and your property over which there is an easement for utilities and such could be a quasi public place. That is a weak argument though.
To me, the ordinance is not supportable as too vague or beyond the scope of what can be regulated on your property.
“Anybody here familiar with legal case law, from state to state, regarding “public places” and private property and private property being considered a public place?”
Well the answer is to live on a private road. We’ve lived on two in 45 years. Right after my father passed away we had his car parked on our road. The California Highway Patrons were acting as the “police force” since we were not yet an incorporated town and they came by and ticketed the car for being “unregistered on the public right of way.” When we called about the ticket they were “sure” that they were correct about the status of our road, but later they sent a motor officer by to “pick up the ticket” and apologize. They are not our friends, they are simply looking for $hit to stir. Personally I can’t imagine having a job to just look for crap to stir .