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ORDINANCE DECLARING VAGRANCY TO BE A MISDEMEANOR AND SETTING FINES
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It shall be deemed a misdemeanor for any able-bodied person to be found within the limits of the corporation, having no visible or apparent means of subsistence, and neglecting to apply himself to some honest calling, or being found loitering around street corners, or bawdy houses or blind tigers. Any such person shall be deemed a vagrant and upon conviction thereof before the Police Judge shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than Twenty-five Dollars.
Any traveling keeper of any gaming table, bank or gambling device, and all persons who travel and go about from place to place for the purpose of gambling shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before the Police Judge, be fined in any sum not less than Five nor more than Twenty-five Dollars.
That any person fined so for vagrancy and failing to promptly pay the same and costs, shall be put to work upon the public streets or other public works of the city, until he shall have fully paid said fine and costs, at the rate of one dollar per day, provided that no person so fined shall be held to work longer than one day for every dollar of such fine and costs. In all cases where convicts are held for such fine and costs, the Chief of Police may confine them in the City calaboose or county jail for safe keeping.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or his deputy when they have good reason to believe, and do believe that anyone is guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, to file such information with the Police Judge, who shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such person, that he may be brought before him to be dealt with accordingly to the provisions of this ordinance.
Passed and approved this 2nd day of April, 1895.