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Every person shall be guilty of the crime of assault who does any of the following:

A. Intentionally attempts by force or violence to do injury or harm to the person of another; or

B. Makes any threatening gesture, showing in itself or by words accompanying it, an immediate intention, coupled with a present ability, to commit a battery; or

C. Unlawfully attempts or offers with force or violence to do bodily harm or corporeal hurt to another; or

D. Makes an unlawful offer of injury to another by force, or an offer of force unlawfully directed to the person of another, under such circumstances as to create a well-founded fear of immediate peril. The crime of assault is a misdemeanor. (Ord. 1332, §21, 1980).