HomeMy WebLinkAbout37 of 1921 - Amending Section 1618, relating to vagrancy ROLL CALL
VOTING AYE NAY
‘04' Salt Lake City,Utah, May 18a 1923.-.e...
Barnes --
Burton
Crabbe — I move that the ordinance be passed.
Green — ---
Mr. Chairman
Result _ AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Section 1618, Revised Ordinances
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1920, relating to vagrancy.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City, Utah.
SECTION I. That Section 1618, Revised Ordinances of Salt
Lake City, Utah, 1920, relating to vagrancy, be, and the same is,
hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 1618. VAGRANCY DEFINED. 1. Every person
(except an Indian) without visible means of support who has
the physical ability to work, and who does not seek employ-
ment, nor labor when employment is offered him; or
2. Every healthy beggar who solicits alms as a business;or
3. Every person who roams about from place to place
without any lawful business; or
4. Every person known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar.
or confidence operator, either by his own confession, or by his
having been convicted of either of such offences, and having
no visible or lawful means of support, when found loitering
around any railroad depot, banking institution, broker's office,
place of amusement, auction-room, store, shop, or crowded
thoroughfare, oar, or omnibus, or at any public gathering or
assemply; or
5. Every idle, or lewd, or dissolute person, or associate
of known thieves; or
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6. Every person who wanders about the streets at
late or unusual hours of the night, without any visible
or lawful business; or
7. Every person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop,
outhouse, vessel, or place other than such as is kept
for lodging purposes, without the permission of the owner
or party entitled to the possession thereof; or
8. Every person who lives in and about houses of
ill-fame; or
9. Every person who acts as a runner or capper for
attorneys in and about police courts or city prisons; or
10. Every common prostitute, and every woman who
from the doorways on the streets, or any other place,
solicits men for immoral purposes; or
11. Every common drunkard; or
12. Every addict of the drug habit,
is a vagrant,
Any person who commonly practices, or who folio
the occupation of exacting money, tribute or support from
any person by means of threats, or coercion, for any
purpose whatsoever, shall be deemed a common vagrant
It shall be unlawful for any person to be a
vagrant within the limits of Salt Lake City.
Any person found guilty of vagrancy shall be
punished as provided in Section 7 of the Revised Ordinance=
of Salt Lake City, 1920.
SECTION II. In the opinion of the Board of Commissio.-
ers, it is necessary to the peace, health and safety of the
inhabitants of Salt Lake City, Utah, that this ordinance become
effective immediately.
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SECTION III. This ordinance shall take effect
upon publication.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City, Utah, this � " day of May, -'. D.f 1921.
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