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Statutory Text
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That any person who shall go into any public place into or near any private house, or along any public street or highway near to any private house, and who shall use loud and vociferous or obscene, vulgar or indecent language, or swear or curse, or expose his person, or rudely display or wantonly or maliciously discharge or use any pistol or other deadly weapon in such public place, or upon such public street or highway, or near such private house, in a mainer calculated to disturb or alarm the inhabitants thereof, shall, on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, be condenned to pay a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and in default of the same be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than thirty, or sutffer both at the discretion of the court; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not be so construed as to divest the recorders’ courts of incorporated cities of jurisdiction to summarily try and punish the same acts when prohibited under the police regulations of such cities.