Yuma, AZ Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

City Code § 113-32, titled Loitering, makes it a class 2 misdemeanor for any person to frequent, loiter in or continue in any place of ill fame, bawdyhouse or place of prostitution. The section is part of Chapter 113's Disorderly Houses subchapter, which also criminalizes keeping such a house (§ 113-30), being an inmate of one for purposes of prostitution, fornication or adultery (§ 113-31), and letting an owner rent property knowing it will be used for prostitution (§ 113-33). Yuma has no general anti-loitering ordinance reaching public sidewalks, parks or storefronts at large; the code's loitering offense is scoped specifically to vice locations tied to prostitution, not general public-space loitering.

All of these sections trace back to the 1980 Code § 20-135 through § 20-138 and to Ordinance 1798, passed December 20, 1978, with no later amendments shown in the current code, meaning the language has stood unchanged for more than four decades. General obstruction of streets or sidewalks by materials or crowds is instead handled separately under Chapters 210 and 211.