§ 10-162 Interference with professional sporting event.
AC § 10-162
a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. Major venue sporting event. An athletic competition or practice involving a professional team or an athletic competition or practice being conducted in a venue with a permanent seating capacity of more than five thousand. The duration of such competition or practice is to include the period from the opening of the venue's gates to the public, to the closing of the gates after the event.
2.Playing area. Any area designated for use by players, coaches, officials or other team or league personnel that is on, or adjacent to, the area of play during the period from the opening of the venue's gates to the public, to the closing of the gates after the event.
3.Sports participant. An umpire, referee, player, coach, manager, security employee, groundskeeper, stadium operations employee, or any other sanctioned participant in which the major venue sporting event is taking place.
4.Dangerous instrument. Any instrument, article or substance which, under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used, is readily capable of causing death or other serious physical injury.
5.Substance. The term includes, but is not limited, to any liquid or saliva. b. Conduct prohibited.
1.It shall be illegal for any person other than a sports participant to knowingly enter or remain unlawfully upon the playing area of a major venue sporting event.
