(A) The term PROSTITUTION shall be construed to include the offering or receiving of the body for indiscriminate sexual intercourse, vaginal intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio and analingus or anal intercourse for hire. The term ASSIGNATION shall be construed to include the making of any appointment or engagement for prostitution or any act in furtherance of such appointment or engagement. No person shall willfully engage in any act of prostitution, assignation, solicitation or loitering for the purposes of engaging in prostitution for hire.
(B) Prostitution and various acts abetting prostitution are unlawful, as follows:
(1) To keep, set up, maintain or operate any place, structure, building or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution or assignation;
(2) To occupy any place, structure, building or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution or assignation; or for any person to permit any place, structure, building or conveyance owned by him or her or under his or her control to be used for the purpose of prostitution or assignation, with knowledge or reasonable cause to know that the same, is or is to be used for such purpose;
(3) To receive, or to offer or agree to receive any person into any place, structure, building or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution or assignation, or to permit any person to remain there for such purpose;
(4) To direct, take or transport or to offer or agree to take or transport, any person to any place, structure or building or to any other person, with knowledge or reasonable cause to know that the purpose of such directing, taking or transporting is prostitution or assignation;
(5) To procure, or to solicit, or to offer to procure or solicit for the purpose of prostitution or assignation;
(6) To reside in, enter or remain in any place, structure or building or to enter or remain in any conveyance for the purpose of prostitution or assignation; and
(7) To engage in prostitution or assignation, or to aid or abet prostitution or assignation by any means whatsoever.
(C) For the purpose of this division (C), the term PUBLIC PLACE means any street, sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility, or the doorways and entranceways to any building which fronts on any of those placed, or a motor vehicle in or on any of those places. Loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution is an offense, as follows:
(1) If a person remains or wanders about in a public place;
(2) Repeatedly beckons to, stops or attempts to stop passers-by, or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in conversation;
(3) Repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicles; and/or
(4) Repeatedly interferes with the free passage of other persons.
(2005 Code, § 50-13) (Ord. 03081, passed 8-4-2003) Penalty, see § 130.99
Statutory reference:
Loitering for purpose of engaging in prostitution, see G.S. § 14-204.1
Prostitution, see G.S. §§ 14-203 et seq.