Page 1 ORDINANCE NO. _ 978 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PRICHARD, ALABAMA, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION ONE It shall be unlawful and an offense against the City of Prichard ~ for any person, firm, association or corporation to do, perform, or allow to be done or performed any of the following matters set out numerically, namely: 1. No person shall conducts, establishs keep, manages, operate, or cause to be conducteds established, kept, managed or operated any house of prostitution or house in which common prostitutes Live and ply their trade or any rooms or apartments devoted to prostitution or to housing common prostitutes within the city or the police jurisdiction thereof. 2. The license of any hotel, motel, rooming house or lodging house by whatever name called which is in whole or in part devoted to the business or occupation of prostitution or which houses prostitutes engaged in prostitution or for the purpose of illicit assignation between the persons of different sexes or of unlawful . cohabitation therein shall be and become vacated upon conviction of any person or persons controlling or being in charge of or managing, directly or indirectly the conduct, control, management or operation’ of such place, and it shall thereafter be unlawful for such place to be operated as a place of public accommodation. 3, In case any application shall be made for the granting of a license to the person who operated or conducted such establishment as defined in the foregoing section, after the license therefor shall have been revoked by reason of the foregoing section, the License Officer of the City of Prichard shall examine into and investigate the license requested and shall issue the same only when he is satisfied, after such examination that such applicant will be, in fact the operator of such establishment, and is of good moral character. In the event of the refusal of the License Officer to issue such license, the person or persons making the application therefor shall be allowed an appeal to the City Commission of the City of Prichard, and such City Commission may grant or refuse such license, in their discretion; provided that such discretion shall not be abused. 4, It shall be unlawful for any person or for any driver or chauffeur of any conveyance, vehicle, taxi-cab or public hack to transport, carry or convey or to aid, abet, encourage or request A any person to transport, carry or convey within the city limits of the City of Prichard or within its police jurisdiction, any person for any immoral purpose. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person within the city Limits of the City of Prichard or within its police jurisdiction to give . information about or to direct any person to any house or other place, or to any person for any immoral purpose, or in order to aid, abet or encourage immorality. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person within the city limits of the City of Prichard or the police jurisdiction thereof to address or solicit any person for any immoral purpose or to invite or entice any person to go with him or her to any place or to any person or to any room, house, building or enclosure for any immoral purpose. 7. %It shall be unlawful for two or more persons to meet together in any house, building, roomy or any enclosure of any kind whatsoever and perform or commit any immoral act, have illicit intercourse with Page 2 each other or engage in illicit cohabitation. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in illicit cohabitation or to go with or to follow any person or to enter any room, building, or enclosure for the purpose of engaging in illicit cohabitation. 9, It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, demise or sub- let any house, building or room or any enclosure of any kind or to give lodging or shelter for hire or otherwise, to any person for any immoral purpose. SECTION TWO Should any section, phrase, clause or word contained in this Ordinance be construed by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the remainder of this Ordinance, it being the expressed intention of the City Council of the City of Prichard to enact this Ordinance even though such section, phrase, clause or word should be unconstitutional. SECTION THREE Any person, firm, association or corporation found guilty of . violating any section of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $100.00, and may, in the discretion of the Judge or Recorder hearing the same be imprisoned in the eity jail or sentenced to hard labor for a period not to exceed six months, either or both, in the discretion of the Judge or Recorder trying said cause. ADOPTED THIS, the lst day of June, 1964.