Chapter 49: Parades And Public Assemblies

§ 49.01 Definitions

The text in force today, and every version since 2010.

Unofficial compilation built from the City's published 2010 Code chapters and the text of adopted ordinances. Effective dates are inferred from adoption records; scanned chapters were OCR'd. The City of Tiffin's adopted Code of Ordinances governs. Not legal advice.

49.01 DEFINITIONS

As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:

1. “Affiliated group” means a group of persons or an entity which: (i) is engaged in sports or recreation affiliated with and either sponsored or co-sponsored by the City, including (but not limited to) organized youth soccer, boys’ baseball, and girls’ softball; and (ii) has executed a memorandum of understanding with the City for the use of public property.

2. “Applicant” means a person who applies for a parade or public assembly permit as provided in this chapter.

3. “Parade” means a march or procession of more than 25 persons, vehicles, or other forms of transportation, such as bicycles, or combination thereof, in or upon the public right-of-way or in a park that necessitates or results in the exclusion, in whole or in part, of use of the public right-of-way or the park by others.

4. “Parade or public assembly permit” means written authorization by the City for use of public property, including the public right-of-way, as provided in this chapter.

5. “Park” means any park or playground owned or controlled by the City, including streets, trails, and roadways therein.

6. “Person” means any natural or corporate person, business association or other business entity, including (but not limited to) a partnership, a sole proprietorship, a political subdivision, a public or private agency of any kind, a utility, a successor or assignee of any of the foregoing, or any other legal entity.

7. “Public assembly” means any meeting, demonstration, picket line, rally, or gathering of more than 25 persons on the public right-of-way or 100 persons in a park for a common purpose as a result of prior planning that interferes with the normal flow or regulation of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on the public right-of-way or in a park or occupies any area in the public right-of-way or in a park.

8. “Public right-of-way” means the area on or below a public roadway, highway, street, bicycle lane, alley, and public sidewalk which is designed for vehicular, bicycle, or pedestrian travel and dedicated to public use.

9. “Public sidewalk” means the improved portion of public right-of-way dedicated to and/or intended primarily for pedestrian use.

2010 Code (city website file), in force from August 11, 2010 · source page

Confirmed by the city's current text: the 2026 draft recodification (August 2026, not adopted) has the same words (§ 49.01, p. 111), apart from minor wording.

In the 2026 draft (a comparison with a draft, not adopted): § 49.01 — wording changed, minor wording · compare

History

FromToSourceHowDocument
Aug 11, 2010today 2010 Code base text · text p. 1

Dates: an Iowa ordinance takes effect when it is published after adoption. Where the clerk's certificate records the publication date it is used; otherwise the adoption date stands in for it. "Not yet consolidated" means the ordinance amends this section but its new text has not been checked into this compilation yet: read the ordinance.

Back to the chapter

Data last updated October 22, 2026. Built from the archive's documents; see how the data is built.