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Any person committing any of the following acts shall be guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars:

A. Any person who shall make, aid, countenance or assist in making any improper noise, riot, disturbance, breach of the peace or diversion tending to a breach of the peace within the City;

B. Any persons who shall collect in bodies or crowds for unlawful purposes, or for any purpose, to the annoyance or disturbance of other persons;

C. Any person who is idle or dissolute and goes about begging;

D. Any person who uses or exercises any juggling or other unlawful game or play;

E. Any person found in a house of ill fame or a gaming house;

F. Any person lodging in or found at any time in an outhouse, shed, barn, stable or unoccupied building, or lodging in open air, and not giving a good account of himself;

G. Any person who shall abet in any fight, quarrel or other disturbance in the City;

H. Any person who stands, loiters or strolls about in any place in the City waiting or seeking to obtain money or other valuable thing from persons that shall engage in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick to obtain money or other valuable thing in any place in the City, or who shall aid or abet or in any manner be concerned therein;

I. All touts, ropers, steers or cappers, so-called, for any gambling room or house who shall ply or attempt to ply their calling on any public street;

J. Any person found loitering about in any hotel, block, barroom, beer parlor, dramshop, gambling house or disorderly house, or wandering about the streets either by night or day without any known lawful means of support, or without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself;

K. Any person who is known to be a thief, burglar, pickpocket, robber or confidence man, either by his own confession or otherwise, or by having been convicted of larceny, burglary or other crime against the laws of the state who is found lounging in or prowling or loitering around any banking institution, place of public amusement, hotel, store, shop, car, public gathering, public assembly, courtroom, public building, private dwelling house, outhouse, house of ill fame, gambling house, tippling house or any public place and who is unable to give a reasonable excuse for being so found. (Ord. 86-06 § 11, 1986; prior code § 17-8)