(A) Any person who shall be found loitering around any railroad depot or grounds in the city, unless such a person is for the time being engaged in some business demanding his or her presence at such depot or grounds, or who shall bunk or sleep in any railroad car without leave of the yard master or persons in charge of such car, or who shall habitually bunk in any public place without visible means of support, or without being engaged in lawful business, or who shall sleep or bunk in any stable or outhouse, or in any premises not his or her own without leave, or who shall sleep or bunk in any public place or schoolhouse without leave of the person in charge thereof, shall, upon conviction, be fined.
(B) Each and every able bodied male person over the age of 16 and not over the age of 50 years (blind and other infirm persons excepted) who shall loaf or lounge about within the corporate limits of the city begging support soliciting alms, and each and every one of that class of persons commonly known as vagrants or tramps who live without labor or any visible means of support and who will not work when offered employment at reasonable and ordinary wages, found or staying within the corporate limits of the city are each and every one guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction thereof shall be fined.
(C) Whenever any person is convicted and imprisoned pursuant to the judgment of any Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction thereof for the violation of any of the provisions of division (B) above and sentenced by said justice to hard labor such labor may be performed upon the public streets, highways, or about public buildings, grounds, or at such other public place within the corporate limits of said city and during such hours of the day as the person in charge may direct, and not exceeding ten hours per day.
(D) The Chief of Police, or such other person as the City Council shall empower, shall superintend the performance of the labor herein contemplated and shall furnish tools and material, if necessary, to work with, at the expense of the city. Such labor shall be performed under the direction of the City Council and in accordance with such regulations as it may make.
(E) (1) The officer having charge of any prisoner for the purposes specified in division (C) above may use such means and no more than are necessary to prevent escape either while going to, returning from, while at labor at any time; or if he or she refuses to labor the officer having him or her in charge may, to secure such prisoner or to cause him or her to labor, use all reasonable means to enforce the observance of discipline, and may cause such person to be kept in solitary confinement not more than ten days for any one offense; and during such solitary confinement he or she may be fed on bread and water unless other food is necessary for his or her health.
(2) Such imprisonment for refusal to work shall be inflicted within the jail or jail enclosure and shall not be considered any part of the time for which the prisoner is sentenced, but in no event shall the imprisonment exceed 50 days.
(F) The officer having the prisoner in charge shall protect him or her from insults, annoyances, and communications with others while at labor and going to and returning from same, and he or she may use such means as is necessary and proper therefor.
(Ord. 16, passed 8-11-1892; Ord. 52, passed 5-7-1899) Penalty, see § 130.99