Is It Lawful to Beg? (Anti-Vagrancy Law)
It is not uncommon to see persons who have no means of subsistence but beg in the streets, public plazas, within the vicinity of the churches, traffic lights and in some other public places. Some of them would indulge into selling their reputation or into prostitution in order to survive. As a matter of fact, some of us would consider them as eye sores. An eye sore that our government has continuously adopted measures in order to address this problem. But, it seems those measures implemented and adopted by the government were inutile as the problem worsens. Actually, the Revised Penal Code provides a penalty for such act. Legally speaking, these people are called VAGRANTS. As defined, vagrants are: 1. Any person having no apparent means of subsistence, who has the physical ability to work and who neglects to apply himself or herself to some lawful calling; 2. Any person found loitering about public or semi-public buildings or places or tramping or wandering about...