Article 717
DISORDERLY HOUSES

Sections:

717.01  Keeping disorderly places prohibited.

717.02  Permitting indecency, drunkenness or peace disturbance.

717.03  Duty of police officers to arrest upon complaint or knowledge.

717.99  Penalty.

717.01 Keeping disorderly places prohibited.

No person shall keep a disorderly house or place, or a house or place to which persons of bad reputation or immoral character resort or congregate. (Ord. 1777, 1928)

717.02 Permitting indecency, drunkenness or peace disturbance.

No person shall permit the commission in any house, building, room, or premises of any immoral or indecent acts, any drunkenness, any loud or boisterous conduct or language, or any other conduct or noises offensive to good morals or tending to disturb the public peace and quiet. (Ord. 1777, 1928)

717.03 Duty of police officers to arrest upon complaint or knowledge.

It shall be the duty of city police officers upon complaint made or upon personal knowledge of any such officers that any house, room, building, or other premises is or are used for the purposes aforesaid, to arrest the person in whose possession or occupancy such place may be, together with all persons found therein, and convey such persons before a court of lawful jurisdiction. (Ord. 1777, 1928)

717.99 Penalty.

Any person who allows any house, building, room or premises in his possession or occupancy to be used for any of the purposes prohibited by this article, and any person visiting any such house or other premises for any such purpose, shall be fined not more than $100.00, together with costs, and in default of payment shall be imprisoned for not more than 30 days. Each day upon which such violations occur, subsequent to a first conviction therefor, shall be construed as constituting a separate and distinct offense under the provisions of this article. (Ord. 1777, 1928)