A. Prohibited; Exception: No person shall, within the city, commit any act of prostitution or other lewd or lascivious act, nor offer nor agree to commit any such act except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (Prior Code § 15-20)
B. Procuring:
1. Except as provided in subsection G of this section, no person shall, within the city, procure nor offer to procure another for the purpose of prostitution, fornication, or any other such lewd or lascivious act.
2. No person shall be in or near any thoroughfare or other public place within the city for the purpose of enticing, inducing or procuring another to commit any act mentioned in subsection A of this section. (Prior Code § 15-21)
C. Transporting: Except as provided in subsection G of this section, no person shall knowingly transport any person to any place for the purpose of committing any act mentioned in subsection A of this section. (Prior Code § 15-22)
D. Receiving Person Into Building:
1. Except as provided in subsection G of this section, no person shall knowingly receive or agree to receive any person into any place or building within the city for the purpose of committing any act mentioned in subsection A of this section.
2. Except as provided in subsection G of this section, no person having the power to prevent it shall knowingly permit any person to remain in any place or building within the city for any purpose mentioned in subsection A of this section. (Prior Code § 15-23)
E. Directing Another: Except as provided in subsection G of this section, no person shall direct any person to any place for the purpose of the commission of any act mentioned in subsection A of this section. (Prior Code § 15-24)
F. Aiding And Abetting: No person shall in any way aid, abet or participate in the doing of any of the acts referred to in subsections A through E of this section. (Prior Code § 15-25)
G. Houses Of Ill Fame:
1. Permitted In Certain Areas: It shall be unlawful for any owner, or agent of any owner, or any other person, to keep any house of ill fame or any place to which persons may resort for lewd or lascivious purposes or purposes of prostitution or to let or rent to any person whomsoever, for any length of time whatever, to be kept or used for any purposes above-named any house, room, structure, house trailer or other mobile equipment adapted for human habitation, within the city other than High Street between Second Street and First Street and on the west side of First Street immediately above and below its intersection with High Street, being the area comprised within lots 16 to 20 inclusive of block "T", 1 to 5 inclusive in block "U", 11 and 12 in block "W", and 9 and 10 in block "X". The city reserves the right to limit the number of such establishments which may be conducted within the area last specified. (Prior Code § 15-26)
2. Regulated: It shall be unlawful for any female to reside in or to visit for the purpose of lewdness, illicit sexual gratification, prostitution or disorderly conduct, any house, room, structure, house trailer or other mobile equipment of the nature specified in subsection G1 of this section within the city, other than the area referred to in subsection G1 of this section. The operators and inmates of any such permitted establishments shall, however, be subject to and governed by such rules and regulations as may be promulgated from time to time by the city council, either directly or through the city police department. (Prior Code § 15-27)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See title 3, chapter 6 for regulations governing legal prostitution. |