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ORDINANCE REGARDING BAWDY AND DISORDERLY HOUSES WITHIN THE CITY OF JONESBORO
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Any person who shall keep or run be interested in the keeping or running any bawdy or disorderly house, house of assignation or ill-fame within the limits of this City, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Five nor more than Twenty-five Dollars, and each day’s keeping or running, or being interested in the keeping or of running such place shall be and constitute a separate offense.
Any person or persons, firm or corporation who shall rent or lease any houses, room or tenement, knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that the same will be used as a bawdy or disorderly house, of ill-fame or assignation, or who shall allow any person to occupy such house, room or tenement for a period of three days after such lessor shall have been given notice in writing by the Mayor that such room, house or tenement is being used for any of the purposes mentioned in this Ordinance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars, and each day of such illegal occupancy after the expiration of said three days, shall be and constitute offense against said lessor.
That any prostitute or lewd woman who shall persuade any male person to accompany her to any room or other place for lewd purpose within the limits of this City shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars.
Any person who shall reside at, resort to, or frequent any bawdy or disorderly house, house of ill-fame or assignation house, within the limits of this City, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Five nor more than Twenty-five Dollars, and each day that such person shall reside at, or resort to or frequent such house, shall be and constitute a separate offense.
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