HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 134 HOUSE OF ILL FAMEORDINANCE NO. 134
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE KEEPING OF HOUSES OF ILL,
FAME AND THE RESORTING THERETO FOR IMMORAL PURPOSE
PROHIBITING AND PROVIDING PUNISHMENT FOR ILLICIT
SEXUAL INTERCOURSE IN THE CITY OF REXBURG AND
AMENDING SEC. 68 OF THE REVISED ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
REXBURG, IDAHO.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Rexburg, Idaho:
SECTION I. That section 68 of the revised ordinances of the City of Rexburg, passed
and approved March 7th 1904, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows.
SECTION 68. If any person shall within the corporate limits of the City of Rexburg, or
within three miles form the outer boundary thereof, keep a house of ill -fame, bawdy house or
other disorderly house or place resorted for the illicit sexual commerce or lewdness or shall
reside in or resort to, for the purpose of lewdness, illicit sexual gratification prostitution or
disorderly conduct or who shall loiter in or around any house of ill -fame, bawdy or other
disorderly house or place resorted to for illicit gratification, prostitution or lewdness or used by
one or more females for the purpose of illicit sexual commerce or lewdness or shall let or lease
any place or house form any such purpose he shall be liable to a fine in any sum not to exceed
one hundred dollars or to imprisonment not exceeding one hundred days at the discretion of the
court. Or to both such fine and imprisonment. Every person having charge care or control or any
of the house named in this shall for the purpose of prosecution be deemed the keeper thereof.
SECTION 68A. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to ply the vocation of
prostitutes or for any person or persons to have illicit sexual intercourse with any person plying
the vocation of prostitution whether the same be for sexual gratification or for hire, or for any
person or persons to have illicit sexual intercourse, at any place within the corporate limits of the
City of Rexburg. Every person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not to exceed one hundred
dollars, or be imprisoned in the city jail not to exceed one hundred days, or to both fine and
imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
SECTION 68 B. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed,
PASSED this 17th day of August, 1909.
APPROVED this 17th day of August, 1909.
SS Thomas E Ricks
Mayor
ATTEST:
SS, W. E. Gee
City Clerk
I hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the original ordinance.
SS. W.E. Gee
City Clerk