§ 19-11. Vagrancy.

Vagrancy is hereby declared a misdemeanor, and the following persons are hereby declared vagrants within the meaning of this section, to-wit:

All persons, who, not having visible means to maintain themselves, live without employment; all persons wandering abroad and lodging in groceries, taverns, beer houses, bar rooms, market houses, sheds, barns, outhouses, uninhabited building, railroads or streetcars, steamboats or other watercrafts, public buildings or open air; all persons wandering or begging, or who go from door to door, or place themselves in the streets, highways or passages, alleys or other places to beg or receive alms; all tramps; all female street walkers; all habitual drunkards; all persons able to work who do not work, but who live upon the wages or personal earnings of their wives, or of their minor children; all persons who live by begging, gambling, stealing or trading in stolen goods.

Whoever shall be found guilty of being a vagrant as defined in this section shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and in default of payment of fine, shall be imprisoned not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30) days, or both at the discretion off the court.

(Ord. of 11-8-16, §§ 1, 2)

State law reference

Power to punish vagrancy, R.S. 33:4874; vagrancy defined and prohibited, R.S. 14:107.