HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-1954-321 ORDINANCE NO.,_
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING DISORDERLY
PERSONS AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT, AND
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR BEING A DIS-
ORDERLY PERSON AND ENGAGING IN DIS-
ORDERLY CONDUCT; DECLARING THIS OR-
DINANCE TO BE AN EMERGENCY MEASURE;
AND DISPENSING WITH THE READING OF
SAME ON THREE SEPARATE DAYS BY A
MAJORITY OF THE COMMISSIONERS PRESENT.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF DANIA, FLORIDA:
Section 1: Any person of sufficient ability, who shall re-
fuse or neglect to support his family; any common prostitute; any window
peeper; any person who engages in an illegal occupation or business; any
person who shall be drunk or intoxicated or engaged in any indecent or obs-
cene conduct in any public place; any vagrant; any person who is found
begging in a public place; any person found loitering in a house of ill-
fame or prostitution, or place where prostitutes or lewdness is practic
ed;
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encouraged or allowed; any person who shall loiter in or about any police
station, police headquarters building, county jail, hospital, court building
or any other place or public building for the purpose of soliciting employ-
ment of legal services and/or the services of sureties upon criminal reco -
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nizances; any person who shall be found jostling or roughly crowding people
unnecessarily in a public place, shall be deemed a disorderly person. Proof
of recent reputation for engaging in an illegal occupation or business shall
be prima facie evidence of being engaged in an illegal occupation or business.
Section 2: All persons who shall make, aid, countenance or
assist in making improper noise, riot, disturbance, breach of the peace
or diversion tending to a breach of the peace, within the limits of the City;
all persons who shall collect in bodies or crowds for unlawful purposes,
or for any purpose, to the annoyance or disturbance of other persons; all
persons who are idle or dissolute and go about begging; all persons who
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use or exercise any juggling or other unlawful games or plays; all per-
sons who are found in houses of ill-fame or gaming houses; all persons
lodging in or found at any time, in out-houses, sheds, barns, stables or
unoccupied buildings, or underneath sidewalks, or lodging in the open
air and not giving a good account of themselves; all persons who shall
wilfully assault another in said City, or be engaged in or aid or abet in
any fight, quarrel or other disturbance in said City; all persons who
stand, loiter or stroll about in any place in said City waiting or seeking
to obtain money or other valuable things from others by trick or fraud or to
aid or assist therein; all persons who shall engage in any fraudulent scheme,
device or trick to obtain money or other valuable thing in any place in said
City, or who shall aid or abet or in any manner be concerned therein; all
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touts, ropers, steerers, or tappers, so called, for any gambling room or
house who shall ply or attempt to ply their calling on any public street in
said City; all persons found loitering about any hotel, block, barroom, dram-
shop, gambling house or disorderly house, or wandering about the streets
either by night or by day without any known lawful means of support, or
without being able to give a satisfactory account of themselves; all persons
who shall have or carry any pistol, knife, dirk, knuckles, sling-shot or
other dangerous weapon concealed on or about their persons; and all per-
sons who are known to be thieves, burglars, pick-pockets, robbers or con-
fidence men, either by their own confession or otherwise, or by having been
convicted of larceny, burglary, or other crime against the laws of the State
or any state in the United States, who are found lounging in or prowling or
loitering around any steamboat landing, railroad depot, banking institutions,
place of public amusement, auction room, hotel, store, shop, thoroughfare,
car, omnibus, public conveyance, public gathering, public assembly, court
room, public buildings, private dwelling-house, out-house, house of ill-
fame, gambling house, tippling shop, or any public place, and who are un-
able to give a reasonable excuse for being so found, shall be deemed guilty I
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of disorderly conduct.
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Section 3: Any person convicted of violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; punishable
by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment
in the Municipal Jail at the discretion of the Court, for a period not ex-
ceeding sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 4: This ordinance is hereby declared to be an
emergency measure on the ground of urgent public need for the preserva-
tion of peace, safety and property of the City of Dania, Florida.
Section 5: The reading of this ordinance on three separate
days is hereby dispensed with by unanimous vote of all Commissioners pre-
sent.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on First reading this 4th day of
January, A. D. 1954.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on Second reading this 4th day of
January, A. D. 1954.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED on Third reading this 4th day of
January, A. D. 1954.
'Adayor- mmissioner
ATTEST:
City Jerk and Auditor
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