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(A) Prohibited acts.
(1) Any person who plays or carries on, or opens or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employee, roulette, craps or any banking or percentage game, played with dice, cards or any other device, for money, checks, credit or any representative of value, or any other gambling game, is guilty of an offense.
(2) Any person who bets on or plays at any of the prohibited games mentioned in division (A)(1) above, or otherwise gambles, is guilty of an offense.
(3) It is unlawful for any person to exhibit or expose to view in any building, or in any part of, or room in, any building, any table, cards, dice, roulette wheel or other article or apparatus designed for or used for gambling purposes.
(4) It is unlawful for any person to keep, own, operate, use, conduct or cause to be kept, operated, used or conducted, either as owner, manager, dealer, clerk or employee, and whether for hire or not, any punch board, machine, cards, game, parlay card or any other device or paraphernalia, wherein or whereby any money or property or any representative of either, or other valuable thing, may be played, bet, staked, wagered or hazarded, won, lost or obtained upon any chance, combination of numbers, emblems or any uncertain or contingent event or condition, or football or baseball contest.
(5) It is unlawful for any person to play any prohibited game described in this section.
(6) It is unlawful for any person to bar or barricade any building, or any part of or room in any building, in order to render the same difficult of access or ingress to the police officers of the town, in which building, or any part of or room in any such building, any table, cards, dice, roulette wheel or other article or apparatus designed for or being used for gambling purposes are exhibited or exposed to view.
(7) It is unlawful for any person to be about in the immediate vicinity where a person or persons are gambling, whether by playing games, operating a slot machine or other device or otherwise.
(B) Seizure of apparatus and paraphernalia. The apparatus and paraphernalia used in the conduct of any of the gambling games prohibited by this section are hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and subject to seizure and suppression by any officer, and shall be abated, forfeited and destroyed upon the order and decree of any court of competent jurisdiction.
(C) Exception, bingo. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the sponsoring and operation of bingo games by nonprofit religious, fraternal, charitable or educational organizations; provided, that the organizations are properly licensed and operated in accordance with law.
(Prior Code, § 5-4A-16) Penalty, see § 132.99
(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
KNOWN PROSTITUTE OR PROCURER. A person who, within one year prior to the date of the suspected violation of this section, has, within the knowledge of the arresting officer, been convicted of a violation of this section or has been convicted of violating any statute or ordinance of any jurisdiction which makes prostitution or soliciting for the purpose of prostitution unlawful.
PROSTITUTION. The giving or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, masturbation, anal intercourse or lewdness with any person not his or her spouse, in exchange for money or any thing of value; or the making of any appointment or engagement for sexual intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, masturbation, anal intercourse or lewdness with any person not his or her spouse, in exchange for money or any other thing of value.
(B) Prohibited acts. It is unlawful:
(1) To engage in prostitution, lewdness or assignation;
(2) To solicit, induce, entice or procure another to commit an act of lewdness, assignation or prostitution; or
(3) To aid, abet or participate in the doing of any of the acts herein prohibited.
(C) Keeping or housing prostitute. No person shall in any way or manner whatever, keep, harbor or house any prostitute.
(D) Enticing person into house of prostitution. No person shall entice or attempt to entice any person into a house of prostitution, or have illicit sexual intercourse with any person under 18 years of age.
(E) Maintaining or leasing house of prostitution.
(1) No person shall keep or maintain a house of prostitution or house of assignation.
(2) No person shall lease, let or furnish any building, room, tent or structure of any kind, or any conveyance used or to be used as a place of prostitution or assignation within the town, or knowingly permit the same to be so used.
(F) Accepting money from prostitute. No person shall knowingly accept, receive, levy or appropriate any money or other thing of value without consideration from a prostitute or from the proceeds of any persons engaged in prostitution.
(G) Securing or transferring another for prostitution.
(1) No person shall offer, or offer to secure, another for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other lewd or indecent act.
(2) No person shall direct, take or transport, or offer or agree to take or transport, or aid or assist in transporting, any person to any house, place, building or other structure, vehicle, trailer or other conveyance, or to any other person with knowledge or having reasonable cause to believe that the purpose of such directing, taking or transporting is prostitution, lewdness or assignation.
(H) Soliciting in public; arrest.
(1) It is unlawful for a person to be present in a public place in a manner and under circumstances manifesting the purpose of inducing, enticing, soliciting or procuring another to commit an act of prostitution.
(2) Among the circumstances which may be considered in determining whether such a purpose is manifested are: that such person is a known prostitute or procurer; that such person repeatedly beckons to, stops or attempts to stop or engage passersby in conversation, or repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicle operators by hailing, waving of arms or any other bodily gesture.
(3) No arrest shall be made for a violation of this division (H) unless the arresting officer first affords such person an opportunity to explain such conduct, and no one shall be convicted of violating this division (H) if it appears at trial that the explanation given was true and disclosed a lawful purpose.
(Prior Code, § 5-4A-17) Penalty, see § 132.99
No person shall engage in any of the conduct or acts hereinafter set forth around, in or near any school or school grounds or streets and alleys adjacent to any school:
(A) Any conduct that would disturb the orderly conduct of the school;
(B) Annoying or molesting any student or employee of the school;
(C) Lewd or wanton conduct in, near or around any of the schools or school grounds or streets and alleys adjacent to the schools;
(D) Moving or parking any vehicle in the vicinity of any school for the purpose of annoying or molesting any student or employee of the school; or
(E) Any other act or conduct calculated to or likely to annoy or molest any student or employee of such school.
(Prior Code, § 5-4A-18) Penalty, see § 132.99
It is unlawful for any person, without lawful reason, 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 expressed or tacit consent of the owner or person in charge of such place.
(Prior Code, § 5-4A-19) Penalty, see § 132.99
(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ANY PERSON. Any human being, without regard to the legal or natural relationship to a minor, as well as legal or corporate entities.
MINOR. Any person under the age of 18 years.
(B) Committing offense. Any person who shall knowingly or willfully cause, aid, abet or encourage a minor to be, to remain or to become a delinquent child, as defined by state law, shall be guilty of an offense.
(Prior Code, § 5-5-2) Penalty, see § 132.99
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