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(a) No person shall engage in sexual activity for hire.
(RC 2907.25)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of prostitution, a misdemeanor of the first degree. Notwithstanding any other section of this Code:
(1) A fine of at least two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) is mandatory upon conviction of a first offense under this section;
(2) At least three (3) days’ imprisonment and a fine of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) is mandatory upon conviction of a second offense or any subsequent offense under this section.
(Ord. No. 773-87. Passed 6-16-87, eff. 6-19-87)
(a) For the purposes of this section:
(1) “Public place” means any street, sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility or the doorways and entrance ways to any building which fronts on any of the aforesaid places, or a motor vehicle in or on any such place.
(2) “Known prostitute or panderer” means a person who, within a year previous to the date of arrest for a violation of this section, has, within the knowledge of the arresting officer been convicted of violating this section or any other section of the Codified Ordinances or the Ohio Revised Code relating to prostitution, solicitation or procurement.
(b) No person shall remain or wander about in a public place and repeatedly beckon to, or repeatedly attempt to engage passersby in conversation, or repeatedly stop or attempt to stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly interfere with the free passage of other persons, for the purpose of engaging in, soliciting or procuring sexual activity for hire. The circumstances which may be considered in determining whether such purpose is manifested are: That such person is a known prostitute or panderer, repeatedly beckons to, stops or attempts to stop, or engages passersby in conversation, or repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicle operators by hailing, waving of arms or any other bodily gestures.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of loitering for the purpose of engaging in, soliciting or procuring sexual activity for hire, a misdemeanor of the first degree. Notwithstanding any other section of this Code a fine of at least two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) is mandatory upon conviction of an offense under this section.
(Ord. No. 773-87. Passed 6-16-87, eff. 6-19-87)
(a) No person, with knowledge of its character or content, shall recklessly do any of the following:
(1) Sell, deliver, furnish, disseminate, provide, exhibit, rent or present to a juvenile any material or performance that is obscene or harmful to juveniles;
(2) Offer or agree to sell, deliver, furnish, disseminate, provide, exhibit, rent or present to a juvenile any material or performance that is obscene or harmful to juveniles;
(3) Allow any juvenile to review or peruse any material or view any live performance that is harmful to juveniles.
(b) The following are affirmative defenses to a charge under this section, that involves material or a performance that is harmful to juveniles but not obscene:
(1) The defendant is the parent, guardian or spouse of the juvenile involved;
(2) The juvenile involved, at the time of the conduct in question, was accompanied by his or her parent or guardian who, with knowledge of its character, consented to the material or performance being furnished or presented to the juvenile;
(3) The juvenile exhibited to the defendant or his or her agent or employee a draft card, driver’s license, birth certificate, marriage license, or other official or apparently official document purporting to show that such juvenile was eighteen (18) years of age or over or married, and the person to whom such document was exhibited did not otherwise have reasonable cause to believe that such juvenile was under the age of eighteen (18) and unmarried.
(c) (1) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section, involving material or a performance that is obscene or harmful to juveniles, that such material or performance was furnished or presented for a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, governmental, judicial or other proper purpose, by a physician, psychologist, sociologist, scientist, teacher, librarian, clergyman, prosecutor, judge or other proper person.
(2) Except as provided in division (b)(3) of this section, mistake of age is not a defense to a charge under this section.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. If the material or performance involved is harmful to juveniles but not obscene, violation of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(RC 2907.31; Ord. No. 2823-89. Passed 3-19-90, eff. 3-22-90)
(a) No person, for the purpose of enabling a juvenile to obtain any material or gain admission to any performance which is harmful to juveniles, shall do either of the following:
(1) Falsely represent that he or she is the parent, guardian, or spouse of such juvenile;
(2) Furnish such juvenile with any identification or document purporting to show that such juvenile is eighteen (18) years of age or over or married.
(b) No juvenile, for the purpose of obtaining any material or gaining admission to any performance which is harmful to juveniles, shall do either of the following:
(1) Falsely represent that he or she is eighteen (18) years of age or over or married;
(2) Exhibit any identification or document purporting to show that he or she is eighteen (18) years of age or over or married.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of deception to obtain matter harmful to juveniles, a misdemeanor of the second degree. A juvenile who violates subsection (b) hereof shall be adjudged an unruly child, with such disposition of the case as may be appropriate under RC Chapter 2151.
(RC 2907.33; Ord. No. 90-96. Passed 3-18-96, eff. 3-26-96)
(a) No person, with knowledge of the character of the material involved, shall possess or control any obscene material that has a minor as one (1) of its participants.
(b) This section does not apply to any material that is possessed or controlled for a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, religious, governmental, judicial or other proper purpose, by or to a physician, psychologist, sociologist, scientist, teacher, person pursuing bona fide studies or research, librarian, clergyman, prosecutor, judge, or other person having a proper interest in the material.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of possession or control of obscene material involving a minor, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. No. 485-85. Passed 5-13-85, eff. 5-15-85)
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