HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 9172112`
ORDINANCE N0. 9172
An Ordinance defining, prohibiting and providing a penalty for the crime of vagrancy,
and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOti'JS:
Section 1. VAGRANCY DEFINED. It shall be unlawful for any person to be or become a
vagrant. The following persons are declared to be vagrants:
a An idle or dissol s n tiv't t
( ) y ute pe r o i hou vZ s ibl e means of hvi.ng, or a lawful
! occupation, who has an ability to work but who does not seek employment,
or refuses to labor when employment is offered.
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~ (b) Any person who being in or upon any public way or place within the corporate
limits in the City of Eugene shall in any manner, or bar any means, methods,
or any devices whatsoever beg or solicit or accept alms or charity; or any
person whose diseased or crippled condition appeals to sympathy and who for
the purpose of inducing the giving of elms or charity places himself or her-
' self in a position to attract attention.in, or upon, or adjacent to any
public place or way, or who passes along any public way or place calling
attention by sign, or act, or look or work, or gesture to his or here diseased
~ or crippled condition; or any vendor or merchandise, or entertainment, or
personal services without a valid license, or permit so to do, shall sell or
~ solicit, or offer, or expose for sale or exchange, or as a gift, any article,
or entertainment, or service, or anything whatsoever, as an inducement to
the giving ,of alms or charity; or any person who, with intent to defraud,
j shall make, or draw, or utter, or deliver any check, draft or order for the
payme nt of money upon any bank, or other depository, knovring at the time of
such making, drava.ng, uttering or delivering, that the maker or drawer has
not sufficient funds in or credited with such bank, or other depository, for
the payment of such check, draft or order in full upon its presentation.
j (c) Any person vrho habitually roams about from place to place without any lawful
business.
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(d) Any person having no lawful occupation who habitually loiters around any
moorage, railway depot, banking institution, place of anusement, public
cardroom, public billiard room, beer tavern, soft drink establishment, street
corner, or crowded thoroughfare.
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(e) Any person who wanders about the streets at late o r unusual hours of the
night, without any visible or lawful business.
(f), Any person who, without permission of the owner or of the person _in the
~' lawful possession, lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, vessel, rail-
] road car or other place which is not designed or intended for lodging pur-
poses.
j (g) Any person commonly known as a panderer or pimp.
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(h) Any person who frequents or vrho stays in or about a house of ill fame.
(i) Any person who is habitual user of cocaine, opium, morphine, codeine,
heroin, alpha eucaine, beta eucaine, cannabis indite, (marihuana),
cannabis sativa (marihuana), sometimes called ~~Indian hemp~~, or chloral
hydrate, or anh of the salts, derivatives or compounds of the foregoing
substances or any preparation or compound contained in or containing any
of the foregoing substances or their salts, derivatives or compounds.
Section 2. Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this Ordinance
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shall, upon conviction thereof before the municipal Court for the City of Eugene be fined
~ not more than X200.00 or be imprisoned not to exceed 100 days.
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Section 3. If any sect~_on, sentence, clause or work of this ordinance shall be held
~ to be unconstitutional the invalidity of such section, sentence, clause or wo rd shall not
i affect the validity of any other portion of this ordinance, it being the intent of the
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~ Council to enact the remainder of this ordinance notwithstanding such part so declared
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unconstitutional should or maybe so declaz~ed.
Section L~. Y~fiEREAS, the immediate enactment of this Ordinance is deemed necessary
for the maintenance of the peace, health, and safety of the city and its inhabitants, an
emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall become immediately effect-
ive upon its passage by the council and approval by the Mayor.
Passed by the Coranon Council
this 28th day of June ~ 19I~8 .
/s/ Henry F. Beis tel
ty eoorder
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Approved by the Mayor this
29th day of June, 1918.
/s/ Earl L. McNutt
Mayor
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