Legislation Details

File #: ORD-1895:002    Version: 1 Name: Penalty for lewdness
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/16/1895 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 7/16/1895
Title: ORDINANCE SETTING OUT THE PENALTIES FOR LEWDNESS
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ORDINANCE SETTING OUT THE PENALTIES FOR LEWDNESS

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Whoever in the City of Jonesboro shall be guilty of any lewd, obscene or lascivious conduct or sexual intercourse or illicit cohabitation to an extent amounting to a public scandal or a public indecency, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Five Dollars nor more than Twenty-five Dollars, and each day that such conduct or relation shall continue after the conviction of either party thereto, under this Ordinance, or after such relationship shall become so notorious as to amount to a public scandal or a public indecency, shall constitute a separate offense.

 

Passed and adopted this July 16, 1895.