As used in this Subtitle, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Every person within Worcester County who habitually in public
or quasi-public places engages in illegal gambling practices and who
habitually follows or practices games of chance or skill with the
expectation and purpose of thereby winning money or other property
and who is a reveler, frolicker, frisker, skylarker or gamester with
regard to the pursuit of such gambling or gaming.
Every person within Worcester County who begs upon the public
way or from house to house or sits or stands or takes a position in
any place or begs from passersby either by words or gestures or by
the placing of containers for the receipt of beggings.
Every person within Worcester County who has no visible means
of maintenance from property, personal labor or pension or who is
not permanently supported by his friends or relatives; who lives idle,
without employment; and every person who leads a discursive, land-louping,
nomadic, circumforaneous, mundivagant, footloose or disorderly course
of life and cannot give an account of the means by which he procures
a livelihood or from whence he came or wither he goes.
Every person within Worcester County who habitually wanders
about and who is idle and without visible means of maintenance and
who lodges about in outhouses, marketplaces, barracks, sheds, barns
or in public buildings or in the open air and who is a wanderer, rover,
roamer, rambler, peregrinator or itinerarian or is without permanent
place of abode.
It is a misdemeanor to be a vagabond, vagrant, beggar or common
gambler in Worcester County.
Upon conviction of a violation of this Subtitle, a person shall
be subject to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment
for not more than thirty days for the first conviction and a fine
not to exceed two hundred dollars or imprisonment for sixty days for
the second conviction.
