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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1273 OrdinanceORDINANCE NO. 1273 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE No. 1180 AS PREVIOUSLY AMENDED BY SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE 1232, AND PASCO CITY CODE 10-5.08 AND BEING AN ORDINANCE DECLARING CERTAIN CON- DUCT, ACTS OR OMISSIONS OCCURRING WITHIN THE CITY OF PASCO TO BE CRIMINAL. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 2 of Ordinance 1180 as previously amended by Section 1 of Ordinance 1232 and Pasco City Code 10-5. 08 are hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 2. Vagrancy defined. The term vagrant means (1) A person who asks or receives any compensation, gratuity or reward for practising fortunetelling, palmistry or clairvoyance; or (2) A person who keeps a place where lost or stolen property is concealed; or (3) A person practicing or soliciting prostitution or keeping a house of prostitution; or (4) Common drunkards found in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale or in an intoxicated condition; or (5) A common gambler found in any place where gambling is conducted or where gambling paraphernalia or devices are kept; or (6) A healthy person who solicits alms; or (7) Lewd, disorderly or cfi-.ssclute persons; or (8) A person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouses, 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) A person who lives or works in a house of prostitution or solicits for any prostitute or house of prostitution; or (10) A 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 derivation, mixture or preparation of any of them; or (12) A 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 drink- ing saloon or cellar or any public dance hall or music hall where intoxi- cating 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 thorough- fare, or any public meeting or gathering, or place where people gather in crowds; or (13) A person, except a person enrolled as a student in or parents or guardians of such students or person employed by such school or insti- tution, 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. This ordinance will be in full force and effect after its passage and publication as required by law. L � y . PASSED by the City Council and APPROVED as provided by law this 21 day of March, 1967. G. E. CARTER, MAYOR i Attest: RUTH MODESKY, Ci Clerk Approved as to form: lob D. WAYNE CAMPBELL, City Attd"rney CITY CLERK MARCH 22, 1967 A.L. McKibbin, Chief of Police City Hall Pasco, Washington Dear Mac: We are handing you herewith, one,(1) copy of Ordinance No. 1273 (Vagrancy defined) for your files. Sincerely yours, RM:ew Enc: (1) Ruth Modesky City Clerk C� OO py