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Title 9 — PEACE, MORALS, AND SAFETY

Chapter 9.42 — CERTAIN BODILY FUNCTIONS PROHIBITED IN PUBLIC

Barstow Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-02 · Barstow

Sec. 9.42.010. - Urination and defecation prohibited; where.

Any person who, in any public park, street, alley, highway, public meeting, assembly, or other public place, or in the immediate neighborhood thereof and in view from the same places, urinates or defecates, is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, that this section shall not be applicable to the act of urinating or defecating in a proper receptacle in a restroom or bathroom in any enclosed structure.

(Code 1969, § 9.42.010; Ord. No. 530, § 1, 1984)

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