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     624.65 Itinerant carnivals.  


    Subdivision 1.    Prohibited.  Itinerant carnivals, as 
 defined in subdivision 2, are hereby declared to be a public 
 nuisance and are prohibited.  


    Subd. 2.    Itinerant carnival.  An itinerant carnival, 
 within the meaning and for the purposes of this section, is any 
 itinerant carnival, show, act, or exhibition, or any other 
 carnival, show, act, or exhibition, which is held in the open or 
 indoors or upon or within any public or private grounds of the 
 state, or of any incorporated municipality thereof at which 
 congregates and assembles, with or without payment of an 
 admission fee, a promiscuous gathering of people, as spectators 
 or otherwise, and at which lewd or obscene features are a part, 
 or at which any gambling concessions are given or games of 
 chance practiced, or in or about which actors or other persons 
 connected therewith are engaged in immoral pursuits, or at which 
 attractions are exhibited which affect the health or morals of 
 the community.  


    Subd. 3.    Penalties.  Any person who shall 
 participate in allowing or conducting any itinerant carnival 
 herein prohibited shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be 
 punishable by a fine of not less than $50 nor exceeding $100 or 
 by imprisonment in the county jail or the city workhouse for not 
 less than 30 days nor more than three months.  


    HIST: (10242,10243,10244) 1923 c 428 s 1-3

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