Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 13.34 Lookouts for Criminal Activities

Every person who acts as a guard or lookout for any building, premises or establishment used for gambling, prostitution or any other form of vice or illegal act, or where alcoholic beverages are illegally kept, sold or purchased, or for any person soliciting, offering or engaging in prostitution, gambling or any other form of vice or illegal act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 4262 § 1, 1943.)

Every person who gives any signal intended to or calculated to warn or give warning of the approach of any peace officer to any person in or about any building or premises or places mentioned in Section 13.34.010 of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 4262 § 2, 1943.)

The prohibitions of this chapter do not apply to any action either positively permitted or prohibited by constitutional provision or by general law.

(Ord. 4262 § 6, 1943.)

Every violation of this chapter is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than six months or by a fine of not more than $500.00, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 4262 § 8, 1943.)

If any provision of the ordinance codified in this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

(Ord. 4262 § 7, 1943.)