(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to be guilty of vagrancy as herein defined.
(B) The following persons shall be deemed vagrants:
(1) Burglar’s tools. Any person upon whose possession shall be found any instrument, tool or other implement for picking locks or pockets, or any implement that is usually employed or that reasonably may be inferred to have been designed to be employed in the commission of any felony or misdemeanor or in the violation of any ordinance, and who shall fail to account satisfactorily for the possession of the same;
(2) Unlawful occupancy. Any person wandering abroad and occupying, lodging or sleeping in any vacant or unoccupied barn, garage, shed, shop or other building or structure, or in any automobile, truck, railroad car or other vehicle, without owning the same or without permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession of the same, or sleeping in any vacant lot during the hours of darkness and not giving a satisfactory account for himself or herself;
(3) Begging. Any person wandering abroad and begging; or any person who goes about from door to door of private homes or commercial and business establishments, or places himself or herself in or upon any public way or public place to beg or receive alms for himself or herself; and
(4) Loitering. Any person found loitering or strolling, in, about or upon any street, alley or other public way or public place, or at any public gathering or assembly, or in or around any store, shop or business or commercial establishment, or on any private property or place without lawful business and conducting himself or herself in a lewd, lascivious manner in speech or behavior.
(1974 Code, § 5-4-2.3)