McKinney City Council members approved an ordinance outlawing aggressive panhandling across the city but tabled two other ordinances related to sitting or sleeping in public spaces.

Council members voted on the ordinances during a Sept. 16 meeting . The aggressive panhandling ordinance , which applies citywide, prohibits soliciting or panhandling in an aggressive manner by using violent or threatening gestures, or intentionally blocking the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.

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The remaining ordinances were tabled until the council’s Oct. 21 meeting after discussion among council members. One ordinance would make it unlawful to sleep outdoors, sit in a public street or lie down on a public sidewalk, street, median, parkway or pedestrian right of way. A person would be

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