All persons wandering from place to place within the corporate limits of the town, without known residence or residing in the town, who have no visible or known means of gaining a fair, honest and reputable livelihood; all suspicious persons going about within the corporate limits of the town swapping and bartering horses (without producing a certificate of his, her or their good character signed by a Magistrate of the county from which the person last came); likewise all persons who acquire a livelihood by gambling or horse racing, without other visible means of gaining livelihood, all keepers of gaming tables, faro banks or other banks whatsoever used for gaming known under any other denomination within the corporate limits of the town; also, all persons who lead idle and disorderly lives, all who knowingly harbor horse thieves and felons, and those who are known to be of that character and description; likewise all persons not following some handicraft, trade or profession, or not having some known or visible means of livelihood, who shall be able to work; all fortune tellers for fee or rewards, and all beggars, are, and shall be deemed vagrants, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined or imprisoned as for a misdemeanor.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. III, § 3-7)