Nebraska Vagrancy Law (1881)

Sec. 242. [Vagrants.]—All idle persons not having visible means of support and maintenance and who live without employment, and all persons wandering abroad and living in taverns, groceries, beer houses, market places, sheds, barns, or in open air, and not giving a good account of themselves, and all persons wandering about and begging, or who go about from door to door, or from place to place, or occupy public places for the purpose of begging and receiving alms, and all prostitutes, and all keepers, occupants, lessees, tenants and pimps of houses used for prostitution or gambling, shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be vagrants; and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the jail of the county not exceeding three months, and be subject to hard labor in said jail or elsewhere in the county, as the court may order; Provided, That any person so convicted, who shall be disqualified for manual labor by physical inability, and shall be a proper object for relief, shall be sent to the alms house of the proper city or county, or otherwise cared for, according to law. [Amended 1875, 15.]