Editor's Note: Original § 39-4B of the 1973 Code, concerning prohibition of prostitution, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
A person who has contracted an infectious or other disease in the
practice of drunkenness or debauchery, requiring charitable aid to
restore him to health;
A person wandering abroad and begging, or who goes about from door
to door or places himself in the streets, highways, passages or other
public places, to beg or receive alms;
A person wandering abroad and lodging in taverns, groceries, alehouses,
watch or station houses, outhouses, marketplaces, sheds, stables,
barns or uninhabited buildings, or in the open air, and not giving
a good account of himself;
A person who, having his face painted, discolored, covered or concealed,
or being otherwise disguised, in a manner calculated to prevent his
being identified, appears in a road or public highway, or in a field,
lot, wood or enclosure;
Any child between the age of five and 14, having sufficient bodily
health and mental capacity to attend the public school, found wandering
in the streets or lanes of any city or incorporated Village, a truant,
without any lawful occupation.
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall
be punishable by a fine not exceeding $250, imprisonment for not more
than 15 days, or both.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]