Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-15
NEW THIS WEEK.
BILL NO. a.
ORDINANCE NO. 4
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING vAGRANcs
AND WARRANTS.

AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING vAGRANCY
AND WARRANTS.
SEC. l. The City Council of the City of Yer
ington do ordain.
That vagrancy consists of the acts and deeds Of
commission and omission coupled with the per
sonal state and condition of vagrant, and shall
be deemed misdemeanor; and any person con-
victed thereof shall be punished by fine or inn
prisonment or both.
SEC. a. That every idle and dissolute person,
without visible or known means of living. who
has the physical ability to work, and who does
not for the space of ten days make the proper
inquiry for. and use due diligence TO seek em-
ployment, nor labor when employment is offered
him; also every idle or dissolute person who
roams about the country from place to place
without any Lawful business; also every healthy
beggar who solicits aims business: also
every person who makes practice of going from
house to house begging food. money, or other
articles, or seeks admission to such house upon
frivolous pretexts for no other apparent motive
than to who may be therein. to gain
insight of the premises; also, every idle dis
solut person or associate of known thieves who
wander about the streets at late and unusual
hours of the night, prowi around dark alleys
byways, and other dark or unfrequented places
at any hour of the night, without any legitimate
business in so doing; also every idle or dssolute
person who lodges in any barn. shed, shop. out
purposes, without the permission of the owner or
person entitled to the possession thereof; every
one who frequents gambling rooms and solicts
money or the checks used therein to represent
money from the proprietors, bystanders or bet
tors. and who has no other means of living other
than the money obtained, obtained in
similar manner elsewhere; every lewd and disso-
lutte male person who lives in and about houses
of ill-fame; also. every lewd and dissolute fe-
male person known a street walker" or
common prostitute, who shall upon the public
streets, or in or about any public place or assem-
blage, or in any saloon, bar-room, club room,
any other public eneral place of resort for
men, anywhere within the sight or hearing of
ladies or children, conduct and behave herself in
immodest drunken. indecent. profane,
obscene manner. either by actions. language.
improper exposure of her person; every common
drunkard who is in the habit Of lying around
the streets. alleys, sidewalks saloons, bar-rooms
or other public places in a state of gross ntoxi-
cation also every boy or male person under the
age of twenty-one years, who habitually remains
away from his home or place of residence after
the hour of nine (o) O'Clock p. M. without some
lawful and necessary business, or other impera-
tive duty. or good and sufficient reason cause
for such absence from home after such hour, for
his own amusement and pastine. without any
legitimate business for doing frequents and
passes his time in any gambling room, other
place where gambling is conducted or any bill
lard room or other place where any such games
are played, or any saloon other place where
Intoxicating liquor is sold or drank; or who at
any hour of the day or night, for his own amuse-
inent and pastine. without any legtime bust
ness for so doing, frequents or loafs around any
low den. house or other place of vice. ufamy or
immortality. where known thieves and other
vicious and infamous persons resort congre-
gate; or who at any hour of the night either
alone or otherwise, prows about the streets
town. disturbing the peace and quiet of the
neighhorhood by loud unnecessary noise,
committing petty depredations. tricks OF pranks
upon the person or property of other people
by abusive. obscene or insulting language by
any manner OF rowdyism whatsoever, disturb
and annoy the passersby. any lawful assemblage
of persons, or the neighborhood at large. is
vagrant, and guilty of vagrancy and upon con-
victicn may be punished accordingly.
Any person found guilty of vagrancy shall be
punished by fine of twenty-five (S25) dollars or
imprisonment in the city Jail for any time not
exceeding three months or by both such fine and
imprisonment
SEC. s. All male persons having the physical
ability to work, convicted of vagrancy and i'm
prisoned on judgment therefor may be required
To- perform labor on the public works, buildings.
grounds, or ways in the city, and the Chief of
Police or other person or persons having them