Tour and real estate operators Rocha They requested the authorities of the Ministry of Interior that the “vagrancy law” with the objective of “taking care of the safety of the spas” most visited by tourists in Uruguay during the summer season.
The safety in spas It is a common concern among tourism and real estate operators due to the greater influx of people in the busiest months of the year. season: January, February and March. For this reason, they proposed that a rule known as the “vagrancy law” be applied more strictly.
This law is actually Law 10,071 of the year 1941, and maintains that “persons of both sexes, over 21 years of age, included in the categories stated in article 2.o, may be declared in a dangerous state when their conduct and psychological and moral state, previous and current, show that they represent a social danger.”
The legal text, which, although it is in force, is old in its wording, includes within the list of “dangerous” people to the lazy, considered as such those who, not having lawful means of subsistence, do not exercise a profession or trade and, being suitable for work, give themselves over to idleness”; “the beggars, considered as such those who, being fit for work, engage – on a regular basis – in public begging or, being disabled due to disability, illness or old age, do so in places where there are establishments intended to shelter or assist them; and those who habitually live off the begging of others, exploit minors, the sick or crippled, or incite them to beg.”
It also considers “the drunk and drug addicts habitual, who become drunk or intoxicated in public places, and even in private places when – in that state – they disturb the order and constitute a danger to others”; the pimps; “those who observe behavior revealing inclination to crime, manifested by the assiduous treatment and without justified cause, of criminals and people of bad living, or by frequenting – under the same conditions – places where they meet”; and “those who, legitimately required by the authority, do not justify the origin of the money or effects that they keep in their possession or that they have delivered to others for investment or custody, and also those who, without justified cause, hide their true name, “disguise their personality, or use or have false identification documents or hide their own.”
What do they propose in Rocha?
With the effective and stricter application of this law, the “security measures” contemplated by the standard. This means that actions may be implemented ranging from internment in “an establishment with a compulsory work regime, for an indefinite period, which will not be less than one year nor more than five” or “curative isolation, for an indefinite period, until the “he would have confirmed the cure”; up to the “obligation to declare domicile, or to reside in a certain place, or prohibition to reside in a certain place or department, for the term established by the sentence, and submission to the supervision of the authority.”
In any case, the idea of tourism and real estate operators of Rocha is to work to analyze the validity of the norm and apply it under the perspective of the 21st century; especially, considering that the law dates back to the first half of the 20th century.
“It is a law that is in the Uruguay since 1941, and like every law it is there to be applied. “We wanted to see a little bit about what the regulations of that law were like, and see if it was applicable to what the 21st century is today,” he told Telemundo. Robert Caballero, real estate operator Dove.
From the meeting with the authorities of the Ministry of Interior “A pleasant dialogue emerged to try to see with Prosecutor’s Office “How can the application of the law be carried out,” Caballero explained, and stressed that “it is not that the meeting came out that the vagrancy law is going to be applied, but that it is something to study, and if it is applicable today.” .
“We understand that it is applicable because in Punta del Este It has already been applied, a bit like helping to take care of public spaces. And that helps to take care of the safety of the spas in the summer season,” explained the La Paloma operator.
The Ministry of the Interior indicated that this law exists, but that it is the Justice Department that has to give the guarantees to the Police so that it begins to be applied.
Source: Ambito
