CHAPTER 11. PUBLIC OFFENSESCHAPTER 11. PUBLIC OFFENSES\Article 1. Uniform Offense Code

There is hereby incorporated by reference the Uniform Public Offense Code for Kansas Cities (40th Edition), revised, prepared and published by the League of Kansas Municipalities in 2024 (the “UPOC”), save and except such articles, section, parts or portions as are hereinafter omitted, deleted, modified, or changed. No fewer than three copies of said uniform code shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as adopted by the Code of the City of Conway Springs, Ordinance No. 1932,” with all sections or portions thereof intended to be omitted or changed clearly marked to show any such omission or change shall be filed in the City Clerk’s office and open for public inspection at all reasonable office hours.

(Ord. 1932)

Section 10.6 of the Uniform Public Offense Code relating to AIR GUN, AIR RIFLE, BOW AND ARROW, SLINGSHOT, BB GUN OR PAINTBALL GUN is hereby omitted and deleted.

For the purposes of this article, vagrancy is defined as follows:

(a)   Engaging in an unlawful occupation;

(b)   Being of the age of 18 years or over and able to work and without lawful means of support and failing or refusing to seek employment;

(c)   Loitering in the city without visible means of support;

(d)   Loitering on the streets or in a place open to the public with intent to solicit for immoral purposes;

(e)   Deriving support in whole or in part from begging.

Vagrancy is a Class C misdemeanor.

(Ord. 1932)

Loitering in streets and other public places is the loitering on the public streets, school buildings or school grounds or any other public place or place accessible to the public without being engaged in some business demanding the person’s presence upon such street, school building, school grounds or at such public place or place accessible to the public or habitually lurking in a public place or a place accessible to the public without being engaged in some legal business.

Loitering in streets and other public places is a Class C misdemeanor.

(Ord. 1932)

It shall be unlawful for any person to trespass upon the property owned or occupied by another in this city for the purpose of looking or peeping into any window, door skylight or other opening, in a house, room or building, or to loiter in a public street, alley, parking lot or other public place for the purpose of wrongfully observing the actions of occupants of any such house, room or building.

Violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

(Ord. 1932)