(a) No person who takes up residence and/or who lives in the City, who has been convicted in any court of any state of a crime which is a felony under the laws of such state or of the United States or which, if committed in the State of Ohio, would have been a felony under the laws of Ohio, and who is currently on parole or probation for such crime, shall knowingly fail to report as required in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Every person described in subsection (a) hereof shall report to the Bellefontaine Police Department within one week after taking up residence and/or beginning to live in the City, and make the written statement on a form provided by the Department and signed by such person, showing the true name of such person and every other name or alias by which such person is or has been known, a full and complete physical description of himself or herself, the name of each crime described in subsection (a) hereof of which he or she has been convicted, together with the name of the place where such crime was committed, the name under which he or she was convicted and the year of the conviction therefor, and the address of his or her residence and/or place where he or she is living in the City and the date of his or her most recent release from incarceration for the commission of the crime described in subsection (a) hereof.
(c) At the time of furnishing the information required by this section, such person shall be photographed and fingerprinted by the Department and such photograph and fingerprints shall be made a part of the records of the Department.
(d) No person described in subsection (a) hereof, upon changing his place of residence and/or place where he or she is living in the City, shall knowingly fail, within fourteen days after so changing his residence and/or place where he or she is living, to notify the Bellefontaine Police Department by personally appearing and completing a written statement on a form provided by the Police Department and signed by such person, of such change of address and the new address of his residence and/or place where he or she is living in the City.
(e) All reports, records, photographs and fingerprints taken pursuant to this section shall be the private records of the Bellefontaine Police Department, open to the inspection only by City or Police Officers, or persons having official duties to perform in connection therewith. No person shall having access to such records shall disclose to any other person, other than in the regular discharge of his duties, any information contained therein.
(f) Upon application to the Bellefontaine Police Department by any such person described in subsection (a) hereof at any time more than one year after such person is released from parole or probation, the Police Department shall remove from its files and destroy all reports, records, photographs, and fingerprints of such person taken or received pursuant to this section.
(g) Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to apply to any person who has received a pardon for each such crime of which he was convicted.
(h) Whoever knowingly violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for the first offense and misdemeanor of the second degree for each subsequent offense.
(Ord. 91-100. Passed 11-26-91.)