The following are hereby declared to be Public Nuisances affecting morals and decency:
A. All illegal gambling devices, slot machines and punch boards, except as authorized and permitted by federal, state, or local law;
B. Any illegal betting, bookmaking and all apparatuses used in such illegal occupations;
C. All houses kept for the purpose of prostitution or promiscuous sexual activity, gambling houses;
D. All places where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, sold, bartered or given away in violation of law, or where persons are permitted to resort for the purpose of drinking intoxicating liquors as a beverage contrary to law, or where intoxicating liquors are kept for sale, barter or distribution in violation of law, and all liquors, bottles, kegs, pumps, bars and other property kept at and used for maintaining such a place;
E. Any vehicle used for the illegal transportation of intoxicating liquor or any immoral purpose;
F. All indecent or obscene pictures, books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers and billboards;
G. The public use of profane or obscene language;
H. The looking into or peeping through doors, windows, or openings of private homes by methods of stealth and without proper authority and by surreptitious methods, or what is commonly known as “window peeping”;
I. All other things, acts, omissions or occupations that may be considered detrimental to the moral well being of the inhabitants of the City or a considerable number thereof.
[§ 5-400, amended by Ord. No. 04-06, effective November 4, 2004, amended by Ord. No. 07-02, effective March 1, 2007, amended by Ord No. 22-09, effective December 28, 2022.]