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Offenses – Article 02. Offenses Against Decency and Public Policy

Section 16-4. Betting Laying Prohibited Game.

Any person who bets or plays at any games prohibited by Title 21 Section 941 or who shall bet or play at any games whatsoever for money, property, checks, credits, or other representatives of value with cards, dice, or any other device which may be adapted to or used in playing any game of chance or in which chance is a material element, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. It is further provided that nothing contained herein shall be interpreted nor enforced in conflict with the provision of Title 21, Section 942 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

It is unlawful for any person to loiter about in the immediate vicinity where a person or persons are gambling, whether by playing games, operating a slot machine or other device, or otherwise.

Section 16-5. Slot Machines, Lotteries Prohibited.

It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association of individuals to set up, operate, conduct, or permit to be set up, operated, or conducted in or about his or their places of business, whether as owner, employee, or agent, any slot machine for the purpose of having or allowing the same to be placed by others for money, property, checks, Credits, or other representative of value, Within the limits of the Town of Tryon, Oklahoma. For purposes of this Article, the definition of “slot machine” shall be defined in accordance with the definition of slot machine found in Title 21, Section 944 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Section 16-6. Obtaining Property by Trick or Deception.

It shall be unlawful within the Town limits of the Town of Tryon for any person, firm, Corporation, or association with intent to cheat or defraud, to obtain or attempt to obtain from any person, firm, corporation, or association any money, property or valuable thing of the value of fifty dollars ($50.00) or less by means of any trick or deception or false or fraudulent representation of statement or pretense, or by any other means or instruments or device commonly called the “confidence game”, or by any other written or printed or engraved instrument or spurious coin, provided that nothing contained herein shall be interpreted in conflict with Title 21, Section 1541.1, of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Section 16-7. False or Bogus Checks.

It is unlawful for any person with the intent to cheat and defraud to obtain or attempt to obtain from any person any money, property, or valuable thing of the value of fifty dollars ($50.00) or less by means of any false or bogus check or by any other written or printed or engraved instrument or spurious coin. The term “false or bogus check” shall include checks or orders given for money or property which are not honored on account of insufficient funds of the maker to pay same, as against the maker or drawer thereof.

Section 16-8. Peeping Tom.

It is unlawful for any person to hide, wait, or otherwise loiter in the vicinity of any private dwelling house, apartment building, or any other place of residence with the unlawful and willful intent to watch, gaze, or look at the occupants there in a clandestine manner within the limits of the town.

Section 16-9. Loitering and Sleeping on the Streets, etc. After Midnight: Public Buildings, etc.

It is unlawful for any person without lawful reason, between the hours of 1 0’clock a.m. and sunrise, to loiter or wander aimlessly within the Town on the streets, in other public places, or on property of another; or during such time to sleep on any street, in any other public place, or on any property of another without the expressed or tacit consent of the owner or person in charge of such place.

It is unlawful for a person to loiter in or about any public building or in or about a depot of a public carrier.

Section 16-10. Indecent Exposure: Obscenity,

It shall be unlawful within the town limits of the Town of Tryon, Oklahoma, for any person willfully to either:

  1. Lewdly expose their person or private parts thereof in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby; or
  2. To procure, counsel, or assist any person to expose their self lewdly or to make any other exhibition of their self to public view, or to the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite lewd thoughts or acts; or
  3. It shall be unlawful within the Town limits of the Town of Tryon, Oklahoma, for any person to knowingly buy, sell, barter, traffic in, or cause to be delivered or transported within the Town my picture, moving picture, series of pictures, drawing, diagram or photograph of any person or animal or character thereof in an act or acts of sexual intercourse or unnatural copulation. Provided, however, that nothing contained in subsection (C) herein shall be intended to prohibit the use of any of the items mentioned above pursuant to a medical prescription by duly authorized physicians in the State of Oklahoma or in recognized schools of medicine or veterinary science for educational purposes, nor shall this section be enforced in conflict with the provisions of Title 21, Section 1040.8 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Section 16-11. Nudity, Improper Dress, Indecent Exposure Prohibited.

  1. It is unlawful for any person to willfully expose his or her person, or private parts thereof, in a lewd manner in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby.
  2. It is unlawful for any person to willfully procure, counsel, or assist any person to lewdly expose himself or herself, or to make any other exhibition of himself or herself, or to make any other exhibition of himself or herself, or private parts thereof, to public view, or to the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency or is adapted to excite vicious or lewd thoughts or acts.

Section 16-12. Drug Paraphernalia, Use of Tincture Prohibited.

No person shall use tincture of opium, tincture of opium camphorated, or any derivative thereof by the hypodermic method either with or without a medical prescription therefor.

No person shall use or possess drug paraphernalia to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled dangerous substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act of the Oklahoma State Statutes except those persons holding an unrevoked license in the professions of podiatry, dentistry, medicine, nursing, optometry, osteopathy, veterinary medicine or pharmacy.

No person shall deliver, possess, or manufacture drug paraphernalia knowing it will be used to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled dangerous substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act of the Oklahoma State Statutes.

Section 16-13. Transportation of Alcoholic Beverages.

  1. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly transport in any vehicle upon a public highway, or alley, any intoxicating alcoholic beverage, except in the original container which shall not have been opened and the seal upon which shall not have been broken and from which the original cap or cork shall not have been removed, unless the open container be in the rear trunk or rear compartment, which shall include the spare tire compartment in a vehicle commonly as a wagon or panel truck, or any outside compartment which is not accessible to the driver or any other person in said vehicle while it is in motion. Provided further, that the provisions of this Section shall be interpreted, defined, and construed in accordance with the provisions of Title 21, 1220 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
  2. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly transport in any moving vehicle upon a public highway, street, or alley any low point beer containing more than one-half (1/2) of one percent (1%) alcohol by weight, except in the original container which shall not have been opened and from which the original cap or seal shall not have been removed, unless the opened container be in the rear compartment, which shall include the spare tire compartment which is not accessible to the driver or any person in the vehicle while it is in motion. Provided further, that the provisions of this Section shall be interpreted, defined, and construed in accordance with the provisions of Title 21, Section 1220 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Section 16-14. Loitering Where Intoxicating Liquor is Sold, etc. Contrary to Law.

It is unlawful for any person to loiter in any place where intoxicating liquor or beverage of any kind is bartered, sold, given away, or otherwise furnished contrary to law.

Section 16-15. Children Loitering In or Near Place Where Low Point Beer is Sold.

  1. It is unlawful for any proprietor or operator of a place where low point beer as defined in Title 37, Section 163.1 of the Oklahoma Statutes is used for consumption on the premises or any employee or agent of such proprietor or operator to permit a person under twenty-one (21) years of age to loiter in or about such a place of business.
  2. If the premises of a holder of a license to sell low point beer contains a separate or enclosed bar area which has its main purpose the sale or serving of low point beer for consumption on the premises, no person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall enter, attempt to enter, or remain in said area. The provisions of this subsection shall not prohibit persons under twenty-one (21) years of age from entering or remaining in an area which has as its main purpose some other than the sale or serving of low point beer, in which sales or serving of said beverages are incidental to the main purpose if the persons under twenty-one (21) years of age are not sold or served or do not consume intoxicating beverages anywhere on the premises; however, the incidental service of food in the bar area shall not exempt persons under twenty-one (21 ) years of age from the provisions of this subsection.

Section 16-16. Maintaining a Place Where Intoxicating Liquor is Sold Contrary to Law.

It is unlawful for any person or any agent or employee thereof, to keep, maintain, or aid or abet in keeping or maintaining a place where intoxicating liquor is sold, bartered, given away, or otherwise furnished in violation of law or the ordinances of the Town.

Section 16-17. Drunkenness and Drinking in a Public Place.

  1. It is unlawful for any person drunk, or in a state of intoxication, to appear or be upon or in any street, alley, place of business, or other public place; or for any person to drink intoxicating liquor or beverage upon or in any street, alley, or other public place within the Town.
  2. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or have in his control an open container of low point beer while such person is upon any public street, highway, alley, thoroughfare, right of way, sidewalk, or upon, about, or within any public place or building within the Town of Tryon.
  3. It shall be unlawful for my person under the age of twenty-one (21) years to have in his possession or control any low-point beer or any intoxicating alcoholic beverage.

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