Disorderly Conduct & Public Intoxication Prohibited. A person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor: (a) A person who solicits anyone to engage in or who engages in lewd or dissolute conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view. (b) A person who loiters in or about any toilet at a public place for the purpose of engaging in or soliciting any lewd or lascivious or any unlawful act. (c) A person who lodges in any public building, structure, vehicle, or place, whether public or private, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession or in control of it. (d) Public Intoxication. (1) If a person is found in any public place under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, controlled substance, or toluene or any combination of any intoxicating liquor, drug, controlled substance, or toluene in a condition such that the person is unable to exercise care for his or her own safety or endangers the safety of others or property, or (2) If a person is found in a public place and by reason of being under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, controlled substance, or toluene or any combination of any intoxicating liquor, drug, or toluene, interferes with or obstructs or prevents the free use of any street, sidewalk, parking lot or other public way. (e) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Lewd conduct or acts” means acts that take place to arouse or gratify a person or someone else’s sexual desires including touching, fondling and masturbating. (2) “Loiter” means to delay or linger without a lawful purpose of being at the public place and for the purpose of committing a crime as opportunity may be discovered. (3) “Public” or “public places” means any sidewalk, square, mall, parking lot, street, or beach area located at the central business district in Garapan, Saipan, especially near and around hotel and motel establishments, and all tourist sites located in the CNMI. (4) “Tourist sites” means tourist sites and historic sites in the CNMI that are identified or recognized by the Marianas Visitors Authority. (f) Penalties. (1) A person convicted of disorderly conduct under this section may be punished by a fine of not less than $250 and 100 days of community service. (2) A second violation of any provision of this section is punishable by a fine of not less than $500 and 200 hours of community service. (3) A third or subsequent violation of any provision of this section is punishable by being banned from the premises for one year, or fined not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for 30 days.
Source: PL 24-15, § 4 (Oct. 21, 2025), modified. Commission Comment: In codifying PL 24-15, the Commission added a single quotation mark in subsec. (e)(3) and omitted drafting marks pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(g).