All persons who shall make, aid, countenance or assist in making any riot, disturbance,
breach of the peace or diversion tending to a breach of the peace, within the limits
of the city; all persons who shall collect in bodies or crowds for unlawful purposes,
or for any purpose, to the annoyance or disturbance of other persons; all persons
lodging in or found at any time in unoccupied buildings or lodging in the open air
and not giving a good account of themselves; all persons who are found in houses of
ill-fame or gaming houses; all persons who shall willfully assault another in the
city, or be engaged in or aid or abet any fight, quarrel or other disturbance in the
city; all persons who stand, loiter or stroll about in any place in the city waiting
or seeking to obtain money or other valuable thing from others by trick or fraud or
to aid or assist therein; all persons who 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; all touts, ropers, steerers or
cappers, so-called, for any gambling room or house who shall ply or attempt to ply
their calling on any public street in the city; all persons found loitering about
any hotel block, barroom, gambling house or disorderly house, or wandering about the
streets either by night or by day without any known lawful means of support, or without
being able to give a satisfactory account of themselves; and all persons who are known
to be thieves, burglars, pickpockets, robbers or confidence men, either by their own
confession or otherwise, or by having been convicted of larceny, burglary, or other
crime against the laws of the state or any state in the United States, who are found
lounging in or prowling or loitering around any railroad, banking institution, place
of public amusement, auction room, hotel, store, shop, thoroughfare, car, omnibus,
public conveyance, public gathering, public assembly, courtroom, public building,
private dwelling house, outhouse, house of ill-fame, gambling house, tippling shop,
or any public place and who are unable to give a reasonable excuse for being so found,
shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct.
