A. It is unlawful for any person, with the intent to interfere with or disrupt a school program or with intent to interfere with or endanger schoolchildren, to loiter in a school building or on school grounds or within one hundred feet (100') of school grounds when persons under the age of eighteen (18) are present in the building or on the grounds, if such person does not have any reason or relationship involving custody of, or responsibility for, a pupil or any other specific, legitimate reason for being there, and such person has been asked to leave by a school administrator or his or her representative or by a peace officer.

B. It shall be an affirmative defense that the defendant's acts were lawful and he or she was exercising his or her rights of lawful assembly as a part of peaceful and orderly petition for the redress of grievances, either in the course of labor disputes or otherwise.

C. The town council finds and declares that the town has a special interest in the protection of children and, particularly, in protecting children who attend schools because required to do so by state law, and the prohibition of loitering in this section is enacted in furtherance of this interest. (Ord. 24, Series 2016)