§ 10-158 — Molesting passersby
Code of the City of New Orleans (Supp. No. 118, Update 1: codified through Ordinance No. 30771, adopted September 17, 2026) · New Orleans City Code § 10-158
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Sec. 10-158. - Molesting passersby.
City retail alcoholic beverage permits issued to retail dealers in connection with the sale of alcoholic beverages of low or high alcoholic content may be suspended or revoked by the alcoholic beverage control board whenever the owner, operator or manager of any establishment whose principal business is the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, or any other person, for or on behalf of such owner, operator or manager, shall permit or allow any doorman, barker, solicitor or other representative or employee of such establishment to touch, grab, manhandle or molest, by the use of any obscene gestures or words, or otherwise, any passersby for the purpose of importuning, inducing, persuading or soliciting such passersby to enter such establishment for the purpose of purchasing any merchandise sold therein, or witnessing any form of entertainment which may be staged therein.
(Code 1956, § 5-58.2)
