It shall be unlawful to keep or maintain a house of ill fame or assignation or place for the practice of prostitution or lewdness, or keep an ill-governed disorderly house, to the encouragement of idleness, gaming, drinking, fornication or other misbehavior. It shall also be unlawful for any person to patronize or be an inmate of any house of ill fame or assignation house or place, or own, rent or allow any premises to be used for any such purposes. It shall be unlawful to maintain, frequent or patronize any house of ill fame or house of prostitution in the village.
Charter reference:
For charter provision as to power of village to prohibit, etc., boarding houses, etc., see char., art. IV, § 26
Statutory reference:
As to prostitution generally, see Ill. Rev. Stat. 1963, ch. 38, § 11-14 et seq.
For state law as to power of village to suppress houses of ill fame and disorderly houses, see Ill. Rev. Stat. 1963, ch. 24, § 11-5-1