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(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGGRESSIVELY BEG. To beg with the intent to intimidate another person into giving money or goods.
BEG. To ask or solicit for money or goods as a charity, whether by word, bodily gestures, signs, or other means.
INTIMIDATE. To engage in conduct which would make a reasonable person fearful or feel compelled to react. Among the circumstances which may be considered in determining whether the conduct is intended to INTIMIDATE another person into giving money or goods are:
(a) Touching the person solicited;
(b) Following the person solicited, or persisting in begging after the person solicited has declined the request;
(c) Using profane or abusive language toward the person solicited; or
(d) Using violent or threatening gestures toward the person solicited.
OBSTRUCT PEDESTRIAN OR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC. To walk, stand, sit, lie, or place an object in such a manner as to block passage by another person or a vehicle, or to require another person or a driver of a vehicle to take unreasonable evasive action to avoid physical contact.
PUBLIC PLACE. An area generally visible to public view and includes alleys, bridges, buildings, driveways, parking lots, parks, plazas, sidewalks, and streets open to the general public, including those that serve food or drink or provide entertainment, and the doorways and entrances to buildings or dwellings and the grounds enclosing them.
UNREASONABLE EVASIVE ACTION. Causing a vehicle to depart from the lane of traffic in which it is traveling to change lanes, to straddle lanes, or to enter onto a swale to obtain passage; it also means causing a pedestrian to leave the sidewalk or to make contact with a wall or fence bordering the sidewalk.
(B) Prohibited acts. It shall be unlawful for a person to intentionally:
(1) Aggressively beg; or
(2) Obstruct pedestrian or vehicular traffic while begging.
(C) Permitted activities. Acts authorized as an exercise of one’s constitutional rights include picketing, legal protest, and acts authorized by a permit duly issued by a lawful authority which do not constitute obstruction of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
(D) Penalties. The first violation of this provision shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $100 and 30 days’ imprisonment; second and subsequent violations shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $200 and 60 days’ imprisonment.
(E) Alternative programs. Nothing herein shall limit the discretion of the police, court personnel, and municipal judges from referring individuals suspected, charged, or convicted of a violation of this provision to treatment programs or facilities as an alternative to prosecution or imprisonment, provided that the individual freely consents.
(Prior Code, § 32-109)
(A) It is unlawful for any person or agent or employee thereof to do any of the following:
(1) To play, to open, or cause to be opened, or to operate, carry on, or conduct, whether for hire or not, any game of faro, monte, poker, roulette, craps, any banking, percentage, or other game played with dice, cards, or any device, for money, checks, chips, credit, or any other thing of value;
(2) To set up, operate, or permit to be operated any slot machine or other device whatsoever where money, checks, chips, credit, or any other things of value are played, when the act of playing the same might result in a gain or loss to the party playing;
(3) To gamble knowingly in any other manner; or
(4) To knowingly permit his or her premises, houses, lot, or other property to be used in connection with, or for, any act declared unlawful in this section.
(B) It is unlawful and an offense against the city for any person to play any roulette wheel or slot machine, or any other device or machine wherein the element of chance is involved by posing or winning money, credits, checks, or any other representatives of value.
(Prior Code, § 32-110)
Statutory reference:
Authority to prohibit gambling, see 11 O.S. § 22-108
Gambling, see 21 O.S. §§ 941 through 948 and 981 through 987
It is unlawful for any person knowingly to deceive another, whether by impersonation, misrepresentation, or otherwise, when such deception results in or contributes to the loss, damage, harm, or injury of the person deceived or of a third party, or results in or contributes to the benefit of the deceiver.
(Prior Code, § 32-112)
Statutory reference:
Obtaining property by trick or deception, see 21 O.S. § 1541.1
It is unlawful for any person, with intent to cheat and defraud, to obtain or attempt to obtain from any person any money, property, or valuable thing of the value of $500 or less by means of any false or bogus check or by any other written or printed or engraved instrument or spurious coin. The term
FALSE OR BOGUS CHECK shall include checks or orders given for money or property which are not honored on account of insufficient funds of the maker to pay same, as against the maker or drawer thereof, or because the check or order was drawn on a closed account or on a nonexistent account when such checks or orders are given in exchange for money or property, in exchange for any benefit or thing of value or as a down payment for the purchase of any item of which the purchaser is taking immediate possession, as against the maker or drawer thereof. The making, drawing, issuing, or delivering of a check, draft, or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud and the knowledge of insufficient funds in or credit with such bank or other depository. Such maker or drawer shall not have paid the drawee the amount due thereon, together with the protest fees, and the check or order shall be presented for payment within five days from the date the same is presented for payment; and provided further, that said check or order is presented for payment within 30 days after same is delivered and accepted.
(Prior Code, § 32-113)
Statutory reference:
Defined, see 21 O.S. § 1541.4
Obtaining property and the like valued less than $500 by bogus or false checks prohibited, see 21 O.S. § 1541.1
§§ 32-114 THROUGH 32-139. RESERVED.
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