21. Drunkenness and disorderly behaviour in public places
Feedback & supportAny person who is found drunk and incapable of taking care of himself, or is guilty of any riotous, disorderly or indecent behaviour, or of persistently soliciting or importuning for immoral purposes in any public road or in any public place or place of public amusement or resort, or in the immediate vicinity of any
public road
“public road” includes every road, street, bridge, passage, footway or square over which the public have a right of way; and the expression “in or near any public road” includes all places in the public road and all places within ten yards of it not being effectually separated from and hidden from the road by a wall or otherwise;
Court or of any public office or police station or place of worship, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen days, and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.
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