Ordinance 752 ORDINANCE NO. 752
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING DISORDERLY PERSONS AND
DISORDERLY CONDUCT; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR
BEING A DISORDERLY PERSON AND ENGAGING IN
DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL CF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. Any person of sufficient ability, who shall refuse 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 obscene conduct in any public place ; any vagrant ;
any person found begging in a public place; any person found loiter-
ing in a house of ill-fame or prostitution, or place where prostitution
or lewdness is practiced, 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 public building or
place for the purpose of soliciting employment of legal services and/or
the services of sureties upon criminal recognizances ; 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 any 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 distur-
bance of other persons; all persons who are idle or dissolute and go
about begging; all persons who use or exercise any juggling or other
unlawful games or plays ; all persons 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 under-
neath 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 thing from others by trick or fraud or to aid
or assist therein; all persons that 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 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 in 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 persons
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 institution, place of public amusement, auction
room, hotel, store, shop, thoroughfare, car, omnibus, public convey-
ance, public gathering, public assembly, court room, public building,
private dwelling house, out-house, house of ill-fame, gambling house,
tippling shop, or any public place, and who are unable to give a
reasonable excuse for being so found, shall be deemed guilty of dis-
• orderly conduct.
SECTION 3. Any person who shall be guilty of disorderly conduct or
who shall be a disorderly person, as hereinbefore defined,
shall, anon conviction, be fined a fine not exceeding Five uundred
( $500.00) Dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty ( 60) days, or
both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Municipal
Judge of the City of Miami Beach, Florida.
SECTION 4. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and they are hereby repealed.
SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall become effective immediately
upon its passage and posting as required by law.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 17th day of October, A. D. , 1945.
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1st reading - Oct. 3, 1945
2nd reading - Oct. 3, 1945
3rd reading - Oct. 17, 1945
Posted - Oct. 17, 1945
STATE OF FLORIDA )
COUNTY OF DADE )
I, C. W. TOMLINSON, City Clerk in and for the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify that Ordinance
No. 752 entitled "AN ORDINANCE DEFINING DISORDERLY PERSONS AND
DISORDERLY CONDUCT ; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR BEING A DISORDERLY
PERSON AND ENGAGING IN DISORDERLY CONDUCT" , having been passed
and adopted by the City Council of' the City of Miami Beach,
Florida, has been posted by me in three conspicuous places in
the City of Miami Beach, Florida, one of which was at the door
of the City Hall in said City on the 17th day of October, A. D. ,
1945, and that said Ordinance remained posted for a period of at
least thirty days in accordance with the requirements of the
City Charter of the said City of Miami Beach.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the official seal of the City of Miami Beach, Florida,
on this the 28th day of November, A. D. , 1945.
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