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Boonville Vagrancy ordinance (§ 14-87)

Chapter 14: Offenses: Miscellaneous · Article V. Offenses Against Morals

Any person who may be found loitering around houses of ill fame, gambling houses, or places where liquors are sold or drunk, without any visible means of support, or attends or operates any gambling device or apparatus, or engages in the practicing of any trick or device to procure money or other things of value, shall be engaged in any unlawful calling whatever, and any able-bodied married man who neglects or refuses to provide for the support of his family, and any person found tramping or wandering around from place to place without any visible means of support, shall be deemed a vagrant. No person shall be a vagrant within the city.

Official source: City of Boonville official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 14-87

Text from Supplement 8 (December 2025), through Ordinance 4678 of December 16, 2024.

Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.