109ORDINANCE NO. 109
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING VAGRANTS
IN THE CITY OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA,
AND PROVIDING THE PENALTY THEREFOR.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA: ';) h
Section 1: Rogues and vagabonds, idle or dissolute persons who go about
begging, common gamblers, persons who use juggling, or unlawful gum a or
plays, common pepers and fiddlers, common drunkards, common night walkers,
thieves, pilferers, traders In stolen property, lewd, wanton and lascivi-
ous persons, keepers of gambling places, common railers and brawlers,
persons who neglect their calling or employment, or are without reason-
ably continuous employment or regular income and who have not sufficient
property to sustain them, and misspend what they earn without providing
for themselves or the support of their families, persons wandering or
strolling around from place to place without any lawful purpose or object,
habitual loafers, idle and disorderly persona, persons neglecting all
lawful business and habitually spending their time by frequenting houses
of ill fame, gaming houses or tippling shops, persons able to work but
habitually living upon the earings of their wives or minor children,
and all able bodied male persons over the age of eighteen years who are
without means of support and remain in idleness, shall be deemed vagrants,
and upon conviction shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 2.
Section 2: Any person convicted of being a vagrant shall be punished by
a fine not exceeding $250.00 or imprisonment not exceeding three months.
Section 9: This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage
Section 4: All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict/ with,/and
the same are, hereby repealed.
The above Ordinance was read in full and passed by the vote of the City
Council of the City of Edgewater, Florida, at a regular meeting on the
9th day of April, A.D. 1956.
Upon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried the requirement
of reading said Ordinance upon second reading was waived, and the Ord-
inance was ordered put upon final passage.
Passed by the vote of the City Council of the City of Edgewater, Florida,
at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 9th day of April, A.D.
1956, and approved as provided by law, the vote of said Council on roll
call being as follows:
Mayo ounc1 n
Council " 7T _
City Clerk i
Approved this 9th day of
April, A.D. 1956.
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