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5033 Vagrancy1 1 ORDINANCE N0. 5033 (Published in the Salina Journal July 23, 1943) AN ORDINANCE relating to and defining the offense of vagrancy and providing a penalty for the violation of said ordinance and repealing Section 22 of Ordinance No. 635 of the City of Salina, being Section 15-172, Revised Ordinances 1939. BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas: Section 1. Vagrancy. Any person engaged in any unlawful calling or who shall be found loitering or idling without visible means of support any place in the City of Salina, or who shall be found idling or loitering in said city without being engaged in any legitimate business, or who being without visible means of support shall refuse or fail to work when work at fair wages is to be procured in the community, or who shall threaten violence or personal injury to any employed workmen, or to employers of labor, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 2. Vagrancy. Any person who may be found loitering around an opium den or resort of any kind for drug habitues, or where morphine, opium, cocaine or any other drug may be used or sold, or who shall have in his possession any morphine, opium, cocains or other narcotics, or any needle, spoon or other instrument to be used in taking of narcotics, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 3. Vagrancy. Any person, male or female, who knowingly associates with persons having; the reputation of being thieves, burglars, pickpockets, prostitutes, immoral women or gamblers, or who lodges in or frequents houses or other places having the reputation of being the resort of thieves, burglars, pickpockets, prostitutes or immoral women, or gambling houses or places for the reception of stolen property, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 4. Vagrancy. Pandering. Any person who shall act as a pimp, procuror, or solicitor for any bawdy -house, house of ill fame, or house of assignation, or any male lodger in any such place, or any male person who shall solicit cusiness for such places or for any prostitute, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 5. Vagrancy. Venereal Diseases. Any person examined by a public health officer pursuant to rules of the Kansas State Board of Health and found to be infected with any communicable disease or syphilis, gonorrhea or chancroid, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 6. Vagrancy. Soliciting Alms. Any person begging or selling in- expensive articles as a beggar, or playing a musical instrument and soliciting funds fromthe public therefor, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 7. Any person who shall violate any provisions of the preceding sections of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed $500 or by imprison- ment in the city jail for not to exceed six months or by both sue# fine or imprisonment. Section 8. That section 22 of Ordinance No. 635, being Section 15-172, Revised Ordinance 1939, be and the same is hereby repealed. Section 9. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official city paper. Introduced, June 15th, 1943 Passed, July 19, 1943 Ed Morgenstern Mayor Attest: Chas. E. Banker City Clerk STATE OF KANSAS } as COUNTY OF SALINE ) I, Chas. E. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 5033 passed and approved by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina July 19, 1943; and a record of the vote on its final adoption is found on page Journal No. ity Clerk (Published in the Salina Journal July 23rd 1943) ORDINANCE NO. 5033 AN ORDINANCE relating to and defining the offense of vagrancy and providing a penalty for the violation of said ordinance and repealing Section 22 of Ordinance No. 635 of the City of Salina, being Section 15-172, Revised Ordinances 1939. BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas: Section 1. Vagrancy. Any person engaged in any unlawful calling or who shall be found loitering or idling without visible means of support any place in the City of Salina, or who shall be found idling or loitering in said city without being engaged in any legitimate business, or who being without visible means of support shall refuse or fail to work when work at fair wages is to be procured in the community, or who shall threaten violence or personal injury to any employed workmen, or to employers of labor, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 2, Vagrancy. Any person who may be found loitering around an opium den or resort of any kind for drug habitues, or where morphine, opium, cocaine or any other drug may be used or sold, or who shall have in his possession any morphine, opium, cocaine or other narcotics, or any needle, spoon or other instru- ment to be used in taking of narcotics, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 3. Vagrancy. Any person, male or female, who knowingly associates with persons having the reputation of being thieves, burglars, pickpockets, prostitutes, immoral women or gamblers, or who lodges in or frequents houses or other places having the reputation of being the resort of thieves, burglars, pickpockets, prostitutes or immoral women, or gambling houses or places for the reception of stolen property, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 4. Vagrancy, Pandering. Any person who shall act as a pimp, procuror, or solicitor for any bawdy -house, house of ill fame, or house of assignation, or any male lodger in any such place, or any male person who shall solicit business for such places or for any prostitute, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 5. Vagrancy. Venereal Diseases. Any person examined by a public health officer pursuant to rules of the Kansas State Board of Health and found to be infected with any communicable disease of syphilis, gonorrhea or chancroid, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 6. Vagrancy. Soliciting Alms. Any person begging or selling inexpensive articles as a beggar, or playing a musical instrument and soliciting funds from the public therefor, shall be deemed a vagrant. Section 7. Any person who shall violate any provisions of the preceding sections of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in the city jail for not to exceed six months or by both such fine or imprisonment. Section 8. That section 22 of Ordinance No. 635, being Section 15-172, Revised Ordinance 1939, be and the same is hereby repealed. Section 9. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official citypaper. Introduced, June 1.5t)i 1943 Passed, Attest; y er July 19, 1943 mayor