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<br />AN ORDIHANC,!; DEFINING VAGRAi'J'CY M1D PRO-
<br />VIDING A PENALTY THEREFOR.
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED by the city Council of the City of La ~orte
<br />mthat vagrancy shall be defined as follows:
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<br />The following persons are and shall be punished as vagrants,
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<br />(a) Persons knovm as trampe, wandering or strolling about in
<br />idleness, who are able to work ~.nd have no property to support them.
<br />(b) Persons leading an idle, immoral or profligate life, who
<br />have no prop&.rty to support them, WhO are able ;0 work and do not work.
<br />(c), All persons oble to work, have no property to support them,' ,I
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<br />amd w'ho have no visible or known means of 9. fair, honest and repute.ble
<br />livelihood. The term "visible or known means of !ii, fair, honest and re-
<br />pute..1:'le livelihood;" as used in this article, sh~ll be construed to mea n
<br />reasonably continuous employment at some lawful occupation ror reasonab~
<br />. . compensation, or a fixed a,nd regul~-:'r income from property or other invest-
<br />I ments, which income ie su~fldient for the support and maintenance'of such
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<br />(d) All a,ble-bodied persons who habitually loaf, loiter 'and idle
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<br />i,n any city, town or villa,ge, or railroad station, or any other public
<br />place in this state for the larger portions of their time, without any
<br />regular employment and without any visible menns of support. An offensej
<br />under par~:,gr8.ph (d), of this article sna.ll be'made out whenever it is '~
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<br />shown that any person has no visible mes,na of support, and only occaaion- '-'-'\
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<br />employment.
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<br />Persons trs,ding or bartering s~olen property, or who unlawfully ':'~~
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<br />sell ii.nyv1nouB, alcoholic, malt,'.. into.1ca ting or spirituous. J,.iquors.
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<br />~f) Every common gt:mbler or'person who for the most part
<br />himself by gambling.
<br />{g) ,Allcompe.nies of gypsies, who, in whole or in part,
<br />theml!elves by telling fortunes.
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