The following acts are unlawful:
(A) Prostitution. To resort to, use, occupy or inhabit for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness any house of ill fame or place kept for such purpose, or to be found at any hotel, boarding house, motel, store or other place, leading a life of prostitution or lewdness;
(B) Soliciting. To ask, request or solicit another to have carnal knowledge with any male or female for a consideration or otherwise;
(C) Keeping house of ill fame. To keep a house of ill fame which is resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness;
(D) Leasing house for prostitution. To let any house, knowing that the lessee intends to use it as a place or resort for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, or knowingly permit such lessee to use the same for such purpose;
(E) Lewdness; indecent exposure. For any man and woman not being married to each other, lewdly and viciously to associate and cohabit together, or for any man or woman, married or unmarried, to be guilty of open and gross lewdness and designedly to make an open and indecent or obscene exposure of his or her person, or of the person of another;
(F) Keeping gambling houses. To keep a house, shop or place resorted to for the purpose of gambling, or knowingly to permit or suffer any person in any house, shop or other place under the permittor’s control or care to play at cards, dice, faro, roulette, equality, punch board, slot machine or other game for money or other things of value, except as permitted by state law;
(G) Gaming and betting; pool selling; places used for gaming, betting, staking and booking. To play at any game for any sum of money or other property of any value; or to make any bet or wager for money or other property of value; or to record or register bets or wagers or sell pools on the result of any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance of humans or beasts, or on the result of any political nomination or election; or to keep a place for the purpose of doing any such thing, or to own, tease or occupy any premises where the same is permitted, or any part thereof, is used for any such purpose, or to receive as custodian or depository, for hire or reward, money, property or things of value staked, wagered or bet on any such result, except as permitted by Iowa Code Chapters 99D, 99E and 99F;
(H) Possession of gambling devices. In any manner or for any purpose whatever except under proceedings to destroy the same to have, keep or hold in possession or control any roulette wheel, Klondike table, poker table, punch board, faro or keno layouts, or any other machines used for gambling, or any slot machine or device with an element of chance attending such operation;
(I) Lotteries and lottery tickets. To make or aid in making or establishing, or to advertise or make public any scheme for any lottery; or to advertise, offer for sale, sell, negotiate, dispose of, purchase or receive any ticket or part of ticket in any lottery or number thereof; or to have in one’s possession any ticket, part of a ticket or paper purporting to be the number of any ticket of any lottery, with intent to sell or dispose of the same on his or her own account of as the agent of another except as permitted by state law;
(J) Blasphemous or obscene language. To use blasphemous or obscene language publicly to the disturbance of the public peace and quiet;
(K) Illegal keeping of intoxicants. To operate or conduct, or allow to be operated, a place where intoxicating liquor is illegally kept, sold or given away; and
(L) Vagrancy. To be at large in a state of vagrancy. For the purpose of this division (L), VAGRANTS shall mean:
(1) All common prostitutes and keepers of bawdy houses or houses for the resort of common prostitutes;
(2) All habitual drunkards, gamesters or other disorderly persons;
(3) All persons wandering about and lodging in barns, outbuildings, tents, wagons or other vehicles and having no visible calling or business to maintain themselves;
(4) All persons begging in public places, or from house to house, or persons inducing children or others to do so;
(5) All persons representing themselves as collectors of alms for charitable institutions under any false or fraudulent pretenses; and
(6) All persons playing or betting in any street or public or open place at any game, or pretended game, or chance, or at or with any table or other instrument of gaming.
(Ord. 120-202-3, passed 10-10-1983)