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DISORDERLY HOUSES
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DISORDERLY HOUSE. Any structure or vehicle by which the peace, comfort, health, welfare or decency of the public is disturbed by reason of the people therein committing or resorting to any of the following acts:
(1) The sale, distribution, possession or use of any controlled dangerous substance, the sale, distribution, possession or use of which is declared unlawful by state statute;
(2) The violation of any of the ordinances of the city or statutes of the state regulating the sale, distribution, possession or use of alcoholic beverages including beer containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume;
(3) The performance of any sexual act declared unlawful by the state statute or city ordinance including, but not limited to soliciting for purposes of prostitution; or
(4) The violation of any state statute or city ordinance prohibiting gambling.
(Prior Code, § 11-408)
Statutory reference:
Municipal authority to regulate, see 11 O.S. § 22-109
(A) No person shall keep, maintain, aid, abet or assist in keeping and maintaining a disorderly house.
(B) No owner, lessee, lessor or other person, partnership or corporation having control over any house, building, structure, tent, vehicle, mobile home or recreational vehicle shall knowingly use, lease, sub-lease or otherwise permit the use of same for the purpose of keeping therein any disorderly house and knowing or ascertaining that the house, building, structure, tent, vehicle, mobile home or recreational vehicle is so occupied as a disorderly house, no persons, partnership or corporation shall continue to grant permission to so use the premises as a disorderly house.
(Prior Code, § 11-409) Penalty, see § 10.99
No person shall knowingly reside in, enter into or remain in a disorderly house. In any prosecution for violation of this section, the city shall have the burden to prove the knowledge by direct evidence only and not by circumstantial evidence. This section shall not apply to physicians or officers in the discharge of their professional or official duties.
(Prior Code, § 11-410) Penalty, see § 10.99
VAGRANCY; LOITERING
(A) It is unlawful to be a vagrant in the limits of the city.
(B) For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
VAGRANT. Any person who loiters or remains in or wanders about a public or private place for any of the following purposes:
(a) For the purpose of gambling with cards, dice or other gambling paraphernalia;
(b) For the purpose of engaging in prostitution or soliciting prostitution or soliciting for an act of lewdness;
(c) For the purpose of engaging in theft, or breaking and entering any building, property or automobile of another;
(d) For the purpose of injuring, destroying, molesting or defacing any property of another;
(e) For the purpose of assaulting any person;
(f) For the purpose of begging or soliciting alms, provided that this section shall not apply to persons soliciting alms for bona fide religious, charitable or eleemosynary organizations with the authorization of such organizations; or
(g) For the purpose of selling, purchasing, trading or otherwise exchanging, procuring or making available illegal drugs or contraband.
(Prior Code, § 11-401) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Municipal authority to regulate vagrancy, see 11 O.S. § 22-123
(A) It is unlawful for any person, between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and sunrise, to sleep on any street, in any other public place or on any property of another without the express or tacit consent of the owner or person in charge of the place.
(B) It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to sleep in any public park between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. in the limits of the city.
(Prior Code, § 11-402) Penalty, see § 10.99
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