Editing Tramp (section)

== Country specific definitions ==
The US State of [[Mississippi]], until 2018,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://legiscan.com/MS/bill/HB668/2018|title=Mississippi HB668 &#124; 2018 &#124; Regular Session}}</ref> had a specific definition for "tramps", which was a criminal offense:<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gates|first=Jimmie E.|title=Did you know Mississippi still can penalize you for being homeless?|url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/05/did-you-know-mississippi-still-can-penalize-you-being-homeless/394979002/|access-date=2020-10-23|website=The Clarion-Ledger|language=en-US}}</ref> <blockquote>Any male person over 16 years of age, and not blind, who shall go about from place to place begging and asking subsistence by charity, and all who stroll over the country without lawful occasion, and can give no account of their conduct consistent with good citizenship, shall be held to be tramps.

Every person, on conviction of being a tramp, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than one month, or both.</blockquote>