16-229 Vagrants; pickpockets; other offenders; punishment.
16-229. Vagrants; pickpockets; other offenders; punishment.A city of the first class by ordinance may provide for the punishment of vagrants, tramps or common street beggars, common prostitutes, habitual disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers, burglars, thieves, ball game players, persons who practice any game, trick or device with intent to swindle, persons who abuse their families, and suspicious persons who can give no reasonable account of themselves. SourceLaws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXVI, p. 255; R.S.1913, § 4845; C.S.1922, § 4013; C.S.1929, § 16-230; R.S.1943, § 16-229.