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It is unlawful for any person to do, commit or suffer to be done or committed any or either of the things or acts in this section hereinafter enumerated, within the limits of the city;

1. To keep, maintain or permit to be kept or maintained upon or in any property owned, occupied or leased by or to such person, any building, place or structure resorted to or used in whole or in part by one or more females for lewdness or prostitution;

2. To resort to, or reside in any place mentioned in this section for the purpose of lewdness, prostitution, unlawful sexual intercourse or other immoral or illegal purpose;

3. To keep a house of ill-fame resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, or to willfully reside in such house, or to resort thereto for lewdness;

4. To be the owner of any building or tenement, the whole or any part of which is used for any of the purposes mentioned in this section;

5. To have control of such building or tenement as agent, guardian or lessee of such owner, after written notice to such owner, agent, guardian or lessee that such building or tenement is being used for the purposes mentioned in this section;

6. To let any building or tenement, knowing that the lessee intends using the same, or any part thereof, for the purpose mentioned in this section; to harbor or keep about his premises any person known to be guilty of following a lewd course of life; and

7. It is unlawful for any person knowingly to visit, frequent or resort to a disorderly house, except for a legitimate purpose.

8. All bawdy houses, houses of ill-fame, assignation houses, all houses or places frequented or resorted to for lewd, unchaste or immoral purposes, all public dance halls that are not licensed, and all houses, restaurants, hotels, soft drink parlors, pool halls and other places where intoxicating liquors are sold, kept, served or consumed, or where intoxicating liquor or vessels or bottles which have recently contained intoxicating liquors are found upon, under or near dance halls, and all houses, restaurants, hotels, soft drink parlors, pool halls and other places where intoxicating liquors are sold, kept, served or consumed, or where intoxicating liquor or vessels or bottles which have recently contained intoxicating liquors are found upon, under or near tables, or in rooms or booths' shall be deemed and held to be disorderly houses. (Prior code §12-18)