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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. Ai %. I left 41111fr Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk 6-1iCli 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. + City Clerk Pt) d m O Qq 0 CD d H O 11 ED y N O CI CI CD tmlo 1-1 0 r ob �r m v, U n� 0 U • •