St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-06-28
M. c. P. Dunbar offered the following
IN ORDINANCE
Ordinances No. / Of 1918.

A0 OhDANANCEh
Ordinance Ne. / of 1918.
To prohibit yagrancy within the corporate
limits of the City of opelousas, La. declar-
ing certain persons to be Migrants. and pro-
viding penalties for the violation hereof.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor
ana Board of Aldermen of the City of Ope-
tousass La, that the following persons are
hereby declared to be Migrants within the
meaning of this ordinance. and punishable as
such in the manner hereinafter provided
VIZ: All persons who, not having visible
means of support, live without employment
all persons wandering abroad and lodging
n groceries, taverns. beer houses. bar rooms,
market places. sheds. barns, outhouses. un-
Innanited buildings, or the open air; all
persons of either sex leading an idle or
openly profligate life who have no property
20 support them, and who are able to work
and do not work all persons receiving. hid
ing, trading or bartering stolen property or
who ~uniawfully sell or barter any vinous.
aiconoiIe or Intoxicating liquors of any
KIND. or any narcotic or habit forming
drugs; any persons who conducts games of
chance under awnings, in booths, in inclos-
ures. on the streets. or in any public place,
whether the prize be in money or in kind /;
every common prostitute who shall walk
the streets, or public places, soliciting men
any person of either sex of the white race
VINO snail hahltually loiter around or fire.
quent. or reside in public or private places
owned by or operated by, or frequented by
negroes: all persons who will wander about
from place to place soliciting aims or beg
ging: or who place themselves on the
streets, highways, or door steps, on church
entrances, passages, alleys, or other places
70 get or receive aims, and who are able
TO work and do not work; all habituaI
~orunkards, all persons who are able to work
and do not work but live upon the wages
or personal earnings of their wives or chill
dren; all persons who, whether the recipients
OF regular incomes or revenues sufficient
Ior Their support or not, spend the major
portion OF their time in saloons. houses of
prostitution. gambling, or lettering: any
male person who habitually associates with
prostitutes, or who habitually loiters in or
around . house of prostitutes, or who being
without visible means of support lives with
= prostitute: the term visible means of
support as herein used shall be construed
to mean reasonably continuous employment
at some lawful occupaion for reasonable
compensation, or q fixed and regular income
from property or other Investment; which
income, besides being q fixed or regular in
come shall be sufficient for the support
and maintenance of such person.
section z. BE 1t further ordained. ETC.,
that IN no case shall the mere possession of
money by the accused, whether on his per-
son or elsewhere deposited, be q defense
TO any prosecution under this ordinance,
he has by act or conduct brought
himself within any of the clnssifications Of
vagrancy as hsrein defined.
Section 8. Be it further ordained, etc,
mat any person who shall be arrested on
the charge of vagrancy as defined in section
one Of this ordinance. shall on eonvictisn
before the City Judge be fined in the sum
not exceeding Fifty $500 Dollors, nor
than Ten Dollars $4,000 or be i'm.
orisoned not less than ten to- days, nor
more than thirty t3el days, or both fine and
Imprisonment at the discretion of the City
Judge.
Section 4. Be it further ordained. etc.
That for good and sufficient reasons this
shall take effect from and after
It's adoption.
Section s. Be it further ordained, etc.
That all ordinances or parts of ordinances |
to the SINE subject matter as this
ordinance, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
The above ordinance, after having been !
read section by section and adopted in a
like manner on motion of Mr.. Fields, second
ed by Mr.. Dunbar, it was adopted az .
whole. by the following vote.