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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinances Book 10, Page 699, No Ordinance Number699 API ORDINANCE PROIIIBITING VAGRAIMY M PROVIDIPdO TIIE PUIIISHMEi'T FO? TIIE VIOLATION THEREOF i BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COI::I.'.I, S10[!ER, OF THE CITY OF PA.DUCAH, KEN TUCKY: SECTION 1. I If any able bodied person, either man or nonan, is Pound loafing, loitering or rambling about the city of Paducah who does not have the means to support himself or herself by some visib e property, or does not betake himself or herself to laboR, or some 'honest or lawful calling to obtain a livelihood, or who not possess— ing visible means, or who does not fellow or labgr at some lawful trade, has quit his or her habitation, and if a man, has left a wife or children without visible means of subsistence, and if a womaln, ihas left her husband or children oi• parents and habitually roams about the city 'ithout any lawful business; or if any man or woman is idle and dissolute in habits, or an habitual drunkard, or is found loafing or idling about places of ill resort without visible means of livelihood, or ,^rho shall ever be found loitering, loafing upon arad I faeq_uentin the streets and public places at unusual hours of the i nivht within the limits of the City of Paducahl or if a woman, is i Ile, dissolute in habits, and habitually spends her time roaming the streets at night, in bars, cafes, and places of amusement, having n known lawful business or occupation, and cannot give a reasonable account of herself, shall be arrested and adjudged to be a vagrant. SECTION 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction in the Police Court, be imprisoned in the :ity Jail for not less than three (3) nor more than twelve (12) months. SEC TI O? 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict ierewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. I I This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from nd after its adoption. ma,; or Passed by the hoard of Commissioners April 7th, 1942 Recorded by i[udy Stewart, City r;lerc, April 8th, 1942.