Any person who owns, manages or otherwise controls any such place of business where food or drink is sold to be consumed on the premises, and who permits or allows other persons to beg, solicit or importune patrons, customers or visitors thereof to purchase food or drink for the ones begging, soliciting or importuning, or for frequenters, habitues or any idle or vagrant persons about such place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, ยง 16)