East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1960-03-24
ORDINANCE NO. 5244
By: MIR. MIX

By: MR.. MIX
AN EMERGENCY ORDI-
NANCE TO AMEND SEC
TIONS Sc (a) AND 83 OF
ORDINANCE NO. 1886,
PASSED JUNE 30, 1925,
AND BEING THE MIS-
DEM NOR ORDI-
NANCE, SO CALLED, OF
THE CITY OF EAST
CLEVELAND.
WHEREAS, an emergency
exists for the immediate pres.
ervation of the public peace,
property, health and safety and
for the usual daily operation
of a municipal department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
ORDAINED by the Commission
of the City of East Cleveland
Ohio, four-fifths of all members
elected thereto concurring.
SECTION /: That Section 30
(a) of Ordinance No. 1886,
passed June 80, 1925, and en-
titled: "An Ordinance defining
and setting forth certain mis-
demeanors fixing penalties for
the violation hereof and repeal
ing all ordinances or parts OF
ordinances inconsistent here
with" which Section Sc (a)
reads as follows:
"SECTION Sc (a): LOITER-
ING. Any person found loiter-
ing about any bar room, gam
bling house, pool room, vessel,
house of i'll fame or gaming
device, or about pools and base
ball games, prize fights, or
horse racing, or found wander
ing about the streets, either by
day or by night, without being
able to give a reasonable and
satisfactory account of them
selves, and any person who
loiters around courts of justice,
or other public places, for the
purpose of soliciting the en-
ployment of professional serv-
ices or bondsmen, and any per-
son with opium, opium pipe,
cocaine or heroin in his posses
sion, and any person upon
whom shall be found any de-
vice, instrument or thing used
in the commission of burglary,
larceny or other crime, or for
picking locks or pockets, or any
device, instrument or thing
used in obtaining money under
false pretences, and any per-
son who obtains his living by
criminal means and practices
or who is the companion or
associate of criminals or other
dissolute persons, and any per-
son who deliberately and un-
necessarily crowds or jostles
on, or about toI
board or leave, street cars, rail-
roads, or in railroad stations
for the purpose of committing
theft, or of aiding others to
commit theft, shall be deemed
and held to be a suspicious
person, and, on conviction
thereof, shall be fined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($5OO.00), or imprisoned
at hard labor in the workhouse,
or both, at the discretion of the
such Imprisonment for
the first offense, not to exceed
thirty 800 days, for the second
offense, ninety 900 days, for
the third and each subsequent
offense, six (6) months"
be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
SECTION Sc: LOITERING.
(a) Any person. or persons inI
the City of East Cleveland hav-
ing no occupation or business
at the places hereinafter named
or who cannot give a reason
able and satisfactory account of
themselves, who are found at
or lettering about or upon any
public street, avenue, alley,
street setback, park, play
ground, public school property,
public library property, or any
Dther publicly owned property,
II in front of a dwelling, place
# business, place of worship or
or about any bar
'oom, gambling house, pool
'oom, house of i'll fame or gam
ng device, or about pools on
baseball games, prize fights, or
lorse racing, or who are found
wandering about the streets,
ither by day or by night, and
my person who loiters around