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Tit. IX, Ch. 13-A. CONTRIBUTING TO CHILD DELINQUENCY. §§ 2113-al-2113-a3.
40 Davenport, under the laws and rules applying to the admission of other
41 children to this institution.
[S., '13, § 254-a20; 37 G. A., ch. 54, § 1; 37 G. A., ch. 150,
§ 1 ; 38 G. A., ch. 12, § 1 ; 38 G. A., ch. 107, § 1 ; 39 G. A.,
ch. 51, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 252, § 1.]
CHAPTER 13-A.
PERMITTING OR CONTRIBUTING TO CHILD DELINQUENCY.
SECTION 2113-al. Contributory delinquency defined.
1 It shall be unlawful for any person to encourage any child under
2 the age of sixteen years, to commit any act of delinquency as defined
3 and specified in section twenty hundred eighty-nine of the compiled
4 code ; or for any person to send or cause to be sent any such child to or
5 permit any such child to enter or remain in any house of prostitution,
6 or any place where intoxicating liquors are sold contrary to law, or
7 any policy shop, or any pool room or gambling place, knowing them
8 to be such ; or to knowingly encourage, contribute, or in any way cause
9 any such child to violate any law of this state or the ordinances of any
10 city in this state ; or to knowingly permit, contribute to or encourage,
11 or cause any such child to be guilty of any vicious or immoral conduct.
[39 G. A., ch. 238, § 1.]
SEC. 2113-a2. Trial—procedure—right of appeal.
1 Any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may
2 be tried for such offense either in the juvenile court, or in any justice,
3 superior or municipal court having jurisdiction therein, and upon con-
4 viction shall be punished by fine or imprisonment or both.
5 All trials of persons charged with contributing to the delinquency
6 of a child shall be conducted in accordance with the rules in the
7 municipal, superior or justice of the peace courts of the state of Iowa,
8 while exercising criminal jurisdiction, and any person convicted shall
9 have the same right of appeal as provided for appeals from such courts
10 in such cases.
11 • If in any proceeding in any juvenile court it shall appear that
12 any person may have committed an indictable misdemeanor or felony
13 that caused or contributed to the delinquency of such child, the judge
14 of said juvenile court may have such person brought before him upon
15 proper warrant; and if upon preliminary examination it shall appear
16 that such person is probably guilty of the offense charged, he shall
17 be bound over to the grand jury of such county and placed under such
18 reasonable bond to appear before the district court of said county as
19 the judge of the juvenile court may prescribe.
[39 G. A., ch. 238, § 1.]
SEC. 2113-a3. Penalty—suspension of sentence—jury trial.
1 Any person who shall be convicted of violating any of the pro-
2 visions of this chapter, may be fined in a sum not to exceed one hun-
3 dred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed
4 thirty days, or punished by both such fine and imprisonment.