HomeMy WebLinkAbout1955-007 Council OrdinancesTHE VILLAGE OF LINO LAKES
ORDINANCE NO. 7
An Ordinance defining and fixing the punishment for vagrancy,
The Village Council of the Village of Lino Lakes ordains:
3}Section 1. Definition
The following persons are vagrants:
(a) A person who, being an habitual drunkard, abandons, neglects
or refuses to aid in the support of his family.
(b) A person who has contracted an infectious or other disease in
the practice of drunkenness or debauchery, requiring charitable aid
to restore him to health.
(c) Every male person who lives wholly or in part on the earnings of
prostitution, or who in any public place solicits for immoral purposes,
A male person who lives with or is habitually in the company of a
prostitute and has no visible means of support, shall be deemed to be
living on the earnings of prostitution.
(d) A common prostitute who shall be found wandering about the streets,
or loitering in or about any restaurant, lodging house, saloon, or
place where intoxicating liquors are sold.
(e) Every female who shall be found wandering about the stretts:.and
addressing male persons for the purpose of soliciting the commission
of any lewd, indecent or unlawful act, or for the purpose of enticing
any male person into a house of prostitution or assignation, bedhouse,
room, or other place for any unlawful purposes.
(f) Fortunetellers, and such other like imposters.
(g) A person known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar, "yeggman" or
"confidence man", and having no visible or lawful means of support,
when found loitering aroung any steamboat landing, railroad depot,
railroad yard, banking institution, broker's office, place of public
amusement, hotel, auction room, store, shop crowded thoroughfare, car
or omnibus, or at any public gathering assembly. Provided, however,
that this act shall not apply to any such person unless he has been
convicted of the offense which would make him known as such person,
and shall not apply to any person who has been in prison for such
offense, who, after being released from such imprisonment has been
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engaged in lawful employment, and shall not in any case apply
to any such person until more than thirty days have elapsed since
being releaseddfrom such imprisonment.
(h) A person engaged in practicing or attempting any trick or
device to procure money or other thing of value, if such trick or
or device is made a public offense by any law of this state, or any
person engaged in soliciting, procuring or attempting to solicit or
procure money or other thing of value by falsely pretending and
representing himself to be blind, deaf, dumb, without arms or legs,
or to be otherwise physically deficient or to be suffering from any
physical defector infirmity.
(i) A person wandering about and lodgin; in taverns, groceries, a1e—
houses, market places, sheds, stables, barns or other uninhabited
buildings or in the open air and not giving a good account of himself.
(j) A person not blind, over sixteen years of age and who has not
resided in the county in which he may be at any time for a period of
six months prior thereto, and not having visible means to maintain
-himself, -live thout loyment- or wanders about r.nd begs, or goes
from door to door or places himself in the steets, highways, or public
passages, to beg or receive alma.
Section 2. Penalty.
Any person who is a vagrant as defined in Section 1. shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof anda11 be subject
to a fine of no"more than $100.00 or imprisonment for not more than
90 days.
Passed by the Village Council this /r day of
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