(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