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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1232 OrdinanceORDINANCE NO. 1232 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 2 and 18 OF ORDINANCE NO. 1180, PASCO CITY CODE 10-5.08 AND 10-5.68 AND REPEALING SECTION 39 OF ORDINANCE NO. 1180, PASCO CITY CODE 10-5.156 AND ADDING ANEW SECTION TO ORDINANCE NO. 1180, PASCO CITY CODE, CHAPTER 10- 5 TO BE SECTION 44, AND BEING AN ORDINANCE DECLARING CERTAIN CONDUCT, ACTS OR OMISSIONS OCCURRING WITHIN THE CITY OF PASCO TO BE CRIMINAL PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFOR. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1180, Pasco City Code 10-5.08 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 2. Vagrancy, Every - (1) person who asks or receives any compensation, gratuity or reward for practising fortune telling, palmistry or clairvoyance; or (2) person who keeps a place where lost or stolen property is concealed; or (3) person practicing or soliciting prostitution or keeping a house of prostitution; or (4) common drunkards found in any place where intoxi- cating liquors are sold or kept for sale or in an intoxicated condition; or (5) common gambler found in any place where gambling is conducted or where gambling paraphernalia or devises are kept; or (5) healthy person who solicits alms; or (7) lewd, disorderly or desolate persons; or (8) person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, vessel, car, saloon or other place not kept for lodging purposes without the permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession thereof, or (9) person who lives or works in a house of prostitution or solicits for any prostitute or house of prostitution; or (10) person who solicits business for an attorney around any court, jail, morgue or hospital or elsewhere; or (11) habitual user of opium, morphine, alkaloid -cocaine or alpha or beta eucaine or any derivacation, mixture or preparation of any of them; or (12) person who by his own confession thereto or prior thereof is known to have been guilty of larceny, burglary, robbery or any crime of which fraud or an intent to defraud is an element who shall be found in any drinking saloon or cellar or any public dance hall or music hall where intoxicating liquors are sold or be found intoxicated, or who, except upon lawful business, shall go about any dark street or alley or any residence section of any city or town in the nighttime, or loiter about any steamboat landing, passenger depot, banking institution or crowded street, shop or thoroughfare, or any public meeting or gathering, or place where people gather in crowds; or (13) person, except a person enrolled as a student in or parents or guardians of such students or person employed by such school or institution, who without a lawful purpose therefor wilfully loiters about the building or buildings of any public or private school or institution of higher learning or the public premises adjacent thereto Is a: vagrant, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 2. Section 18 of Ordinance No. 1180, Pasco City Code 10-5. 68 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 18.Carrying concealed weapons. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry or wear concealed upon his person, or concealed in any vehicle, a weapon, consisting of either a pistol, revolver, or other firearm, or spring blade knife, dirk, dagger, stilletto, bowie knife, sword cane, any knife the blade of which is automatically released by a spring mechanism or other mechanical device, or any knife having a blade which opens, or falls, or is ejected into position by the force of gravity, or by an outward, downward, or centrifugal thrust or movement, or any slingshot, metal knuckles, or any other dangerous weapon or instrument which may be used to inflict injury upon the person of another. This section shall not apply to marshalls, sheriffs, prison or jail wardens or their deputies, policemen or other law enforcement officers or to members of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States or of the National Guard or organized Reserves when on duty, or to regularly enrolled members of any organization duly authorized to purchase or receive such weapons from the United States or from this state or to regularly enrolled members of clubs organized for the purpose of target shooting and affiliated with a national shooting organization, provided, such members are at or are going to or from their places of assembly or target practice or to officers or employees of the United States duly authorized to carry a concealed pistol or to any person engaged in the business of manufacturing, repairing or dealing in firearms or to the agent or representative of any such person having in his possession, using or carrying a pistol in the usual or ordinary course of such business or to any person carrying a pistol unloaded and in a secure wrapper from the place of purchase to his home or place of business or to a place of repair or back to his home or place of business or in moving from one place of abode or business to another. " Section 3. Section No. 39 of Ordinance No. 1180, Pasco City Code 10-5. 156 is hereby repealed. Section 4. A new section is hereby added to Ordinance No. 1180, Pasco City Code, Chapter 10-5 to be Section 44, and to read as follows: "Section 44. Disorderly conduct. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct himself or herself in a disorderly manner by creating a disturbance within the City of Pasco in the presence of another by fighting or arguing or using abusive lewd, vulgar, or obscene language in the presence of another, or by using in a loud, profane, vulgar, obscene or lewd language toward anyone or by urinating in public view or by having his or her clothing in such disarray that he or she would appear indecent to the general public. " Section 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect after its passage and publication as required by law. PASSED BY THE City Council and APPROVED as provided by law this 15 day of March, 1966. ATTEST: 2;z - RU TH- M � 0 D E S - K PC( ,L, gTY CLERK Approved as to form: D. WAY -CAMPBELL"' CITY ATT