Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-06-14
Ordinance No. 70.

An ordinance to define who are disorderly
persons and to provide for their punishment,
and repeating nil ordinances in confliction
herewith.
BE it ordained by the Town OF Ritzville.
SEC. /. The following persons are hereby de-
clared TO be disordcrly persons:
All persons found to be intoxicated in any
public place in the Town of Ritzvile.
All persons fighting or quarreling in any
public place in said town;
All persons who shall resist any peace officer
or policeman, or who shall refuse, when called
upon to assist him in the discharge of his
| duty, or who shall aid or assist any person in
| the custody of such peace officer, upon charge
| of II violation of any ordinance OF the Town of
| Ritzyille, to escape from such custody;
All persons who shall, by noisy, riOtous or
| tumultuous conduct disturb the quiet and
peace OF said tom or OF any meeting or assem-
| Dage therein;
!. All persons who shall use any vulgar, profane
or obscene Il ngudge or conduct in any public
/ place ill said town;
All persons who Shall be guilty of fast or i'm
! moderate driving or riding of horses in any of
| the streets, highways or alleys OF said town, or
ride or drive upon any sidewalk, or obstruct
any sidewalk, street, highway or alley i'll any
manner in said town;
All persons who shall wilfully break impair,
njuse or defaee any building fence, awning,
| ornamental thing in said town;
All persons who shall remove from or pile up
| before ANY door or on any sidewalk or street.
! boxes, casks or other thing, for the purpose Of
annoyance or mischief, or who shall wilfully
tear down, destroy or mutilate any notice or
handful lawfully posted up in said town;
| All persons Except police officers and other
| persons whose duty it is to execute process or
| warrants or make arrests who shall carry upon
| their persons any concealed weapon consisting
of Il revolver, pistol or other firearms except
| by written permit from the Town MarshaD or
any knife (other than ordinary pocket knife)
or any dirk or dagger, sling-shot or metal
knuckles, or any instrument by the use of
which injury eau be inflicted upon the person
or property OF any other person.
All persons (cxcept peace officers rs aforesaidD
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deadly weapon upon, to or against another
person, in said town with intent to do bodily
| injury to such person;
| All persons Except peace officers as aforesaid
and persons practicing at target shooting in
shooting gallery duly licensed) who shall,
within the town limits, fire off and discharge
any gun, pistol or tirearm OF any kind or bomb;
Every person who solicits aims business;
Every common prostitute or female person
! who practices prostitution AMI has sexual i'll
tercourse with men for hire
| Every male person who lewdly and vici0usly
associates or cohabits with common prOsti-
| tute. knowing her to be such and consenting
| thereto:
Every male person who lives in whole or il,
part upon the earnings of common prosti-
| tute:
Every person, male or female, who procures
as business, persons of the opposite sex to
meet for the practice of prostitniion;
! Every lewd woman who loters in or about
saloons or other public places where intoxicAt-
| ing liquors are sold or otherwise disposed of
making business of drinking with men and
|
eating liquors;
Every idle person who is found indscrimin-
atcly assoaiating with drunken men in such
manner as. create reasonable suspicion that
| his purpose is THEFT or robbery;
Every person who shall operate, or cause to
be Operated any gaming apparatus or device
whereby mouey may be lost or won;
Every professional gambler or person who
| for profit;
Every person engaging in bunco aud swind-
| ling games and devices, for the purpose of
swindltng and defrauding others.
Sea. 2, The Town Marshal and the policemen
| or whtchmen shall each and all of them have
power and are hereby authorized, ut any and
all times to arrest, or cause to be arrested, with
or without process or warrant. any disorderly
person or persons found by him or them com
mltnng any mlsdemeanor as defined in section
| l of this ordinance.
See. 3. ANY person so arrested shall be. forth
| with taken before any Police Justice,
| havil jurisdiction of municipal Ofcnses, in
said town. and in case such justice cannot be
found; or the arrest is made In the night time,
then the officer arresting such person may de-
| tam MIN in his custody, or commit him to
some place for keeping, until such justice can
be found, when said offender shall be imme-
| diately brought before such justice to be dealt
with as in the next section prescribed.
Sec; A. The said Police Justice, having
power, and it shall be his duty. in eases of
persons brought before him charged with
| being disorderly persons to proceed summarily
to try such persons, and to hear or determine
| See. D. Every person enumerated and de-
scribed in section of this ordinance is n DIS
orderly person. and shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor; and upon conviction shall be
| punished by fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars (Sl00); and such person so convicted
shall stand committed until such fine and costs
are paid.
Sec 8. All ordinances in conflict herewith
be, and the same are, hereby repealed,
| Provided, that nothing in this ordinance
contained shall affect any right, action suit or
other proceedings heretofore commenced and
now pending in any court of justice for the
| punishment of offenses against or in yialatiou
of the provisions of ordinances.
| This ordinance shall be in force and effect
| from and after its passage and publication.
Introduced and read first time May 1G, 1899,
Read second time June 9th, 1899. Rules
| pended and read third time June 9th, 1899.
Passed by Council June 6, 1899 Published in
Adams County NEWS June 18th 1899
| [sEALl W. r. PETERS, Mayor.
Attest: L. d. gibson, Clerk