Chapter 9.08
VAGRANCY1
Sections:
9.08.010 Defined – Punishment.
9.08.010 Defined – Punishment.
Within the meaning of this chapter, a “vagrant” is deemed to be every:
(1) Person who asks or receives any compensation, gratuity or reward for practicing fortunetelling, palmistry, clairvoyance; or
(2) Person who keeps a place where lost or stolen property is concealed or kept for sale; or
(3) Person practicing or soliciting prostitution, or keeping a house of prostitution, or who lives or works in a house of prostitution, or solicits for any prostitute or house of prostitution; or
(4) Common gambler found in places where gambling is conducted, or where gambling property or devices are kept; or
(5) Healthy person who solicits alms; or
(6) Lewd, disorderly or dissolute person; or
(7) Person who wanders about the streets at late or unusual hours of the night without any visible or lawful business; or
(8) Habitual user of opium, morphine, alkaloid-cocaine, or any derivation, mixture or preparation of any of them; or
(9) Person having no visible means of support, who does not seek employment, nor work when employment is offered to him; or
(10) Person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, car or other place not kept for lodging purposes, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession thereof;
and, upon conviction shall be punished as provided in DMC 1.04.010. (Ord. 226 § 1, 1923; Ord. 23 §§ 1, 2, 1893).
For statutory provisions covering vagrancy, see RCW 9.87.010 (1967).