Chapter 9.32
VAGRANCY

Sections:

9.32.010    Deemed misdemeanor.

9.32.020    Acts designated.

9.32.010 Deemed misdemeanor.

Any person in the city, who is found to be a vagrant as hereinafter defined, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 297 § 1, 1969).

9.32.020 Acts designated.

Every person shall be adjudged a vagrant who:

(1) Asks or receives any compensation, gratuity or reward for practicing fortunetelling, palmistry or clairvoyance;

(2) Keeps a place where lost or stolen property is concealed;

(3) Practices or solicits prostitution or keeps a house of prostitution;

(4) Is a common drunkard found in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale, or in an intoxicated condition;

(5) Is a common gambler found in any place where gambling is conducted or where gambling paraphernalia or devices are kept;

(6) Is a healthy person who solicits alms;

(7) Is a lewd, disorderly or dissolute person;

(8) Lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, vessel, car, saloon, or other place not kept for lodging purposes, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession thereof;

(9) Lives or works in a house of prostitution or solicits for any prostitute or house of prostitution;

(10) Solicits business for an attorney around any court, jail, morgue or hospital, or elsewhere;

(11) Is an habitual user of opium, morphine, alkaloid cocaine or alpha or beta eucaine, or any derivation, mixture or preparation of any of them;

(12) By his own confession thereto or prior conviction thereof is known to have been guilty of larceny, burglary, robbery or any crime of which fraud or an intent to defraud is an element, who is found in any drinking saloon or cellar, or any public dance hall or music hall where intoxicating liquors are sold, or is found intoxicated, or who, except upon lawful business, goes about any dark street or alley or any residence section of any city or town in the nighttime, or loiter about any steamboat landing, passenger depot, banking institution or crowded street, shop or thoroughfare, or any public meeting or gathering, or place where people gather in crowds;

(13) Except a person enrolled as a student in or parents or guardians of such students or person employed by such school or institution, without a lawful purpose therefor willfully loiters about the building or buildings of any public or private school or institution of higher learning or the public premises adjacent thereto. (Ord. 297 § 2, 1969).