(A) No person shall solicit another to engage with the other person in sexual activity for hire.
(B) (1) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of soliciting, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(2) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of division (A) of this section or an attempt to commit a violation of division (A) of this section and if the person, in committing or attempting to commit the violation, was in, was on or used a motor vehicle, the court, in addition to or independent of all other penalties imposed for the violation, may impose upon the offender a class six suspension of the person’s driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, temporary instruction permit, probationary license or nonresident operating privilege from the range specified in R.C. § 4510.02(A)(6). In lieu of imposing upon the offender the class six suspension, the court instead may require the offender to perform community service for a number of hours determined by the court.
(R.C. § 2907.24)
(C) No person, with purpose to solicit another to engage in sexual activity for hire and while in or near a public place, shall do any of the following:
(1) Beckon to, stop or attempt to stop another;
(2) Engage or attempt to engage another in conversation;
(3) Stop or attempt to stop the operator of a vehicle or approach a stationary vehicle;
(4) If the offender is the operator of or a passenger in a vehicle, stop, attempt to stop, beckon to, attempt to beckon to or entice another to approach or enter the vehicle of which the offender is the operator or in which the offender is the passenger; or
(5) Interfere with the free passage of another.
(D) As used in division (C) of this section:
PUBLIC PLACE. Means any of the following:
(a) A street, road, highway, thoroughfare, bikeway, walkway, sidewalk, bridge, alley, alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility;
(b) A doorway or entrance way to a building that fronts on a place described in division (a) of this definition; or
(c) A place not described in division (a) or (b) of this definition that is open to the public.
VEHICLE. Has the same meaning as in R.C. § 4501.01.
(E) Whoever violates division (C) of this section is guilty of loitering to engage in solicitation, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(R.C. § 2907.241)
Statutory reference:
Offenders with knowledge that they test HIV positive, felony, see R.C. §§ 2907.24(B) and 2907.241(B)
Testing offenders for venereal disease and AIDS, see R.C. § 2907.27