(A) Registration of criminals required. Every person entering into the city and staying for a period of two weeks or more who has been convicted two or more times in federal or state courts of offenses which are felonies under the laws of the United States or of the commonwealth or state in which committed, shall register with and furnish to the City Police Department a written statement signed by him or her within 24 hours after having actual notice or a reasonable opportunity to have actual notice, but in no event being presumed to have notice of the requirements of this section.
(B) Exemption. Nothing in division (A) above shall be deemed or construed to apply to any person who has received a pardon for each offense of which he or she has been convicted.
(C) Information required for registration.
(1) Every person required to register under division (A) above shall furnish the following information:
(a) His or her true name and every other name or alias by which he or she is or has been known;
(b) A full and complete description of himself or herself;
(c) The name and degree of each offense of which he or she has been convicted;
(d) The name of the place where each such offense was committed;
(e) The name under which he or she was convicted and the date of the conviction;
(f) The name, if any, and location of each penal institution in which he or she has been confined by way of punishment for each offense;
(g) The location or address used, or to be used by him or her, as a residence, stopping place, or living quarters in the city, with a description of the character of each such place, whether a hotel, apartment house, dwelling house, or otherwise, giving the street number thereof, if any, or any description of such place as shall so identify it as to make it possible of location;
(h) The length of time he or she expects to remain within the city; and
(i) Such other information as may be required by the City Police Department for the purposes of aiding the City Police Department in carrying out the provisions of division (A) above.
(2) Every person residing within the city who is required to register with the City Police Department shall, in addition to the information required to be furnished in accordance with division (C)(1) above also set forth the occupation or employment in which he or she is engaged, the name of his or her employer, the business in which the employer is engaged, and the nature and character of the business.
(D) Photographs and fingerprints required. Every person registering in accordance with division (A) above hereof shall be photographed and fingerprinted by the City Police Department. The photograph and fingerprints shall be made a part of the permanent records of the Police Department.
(E) Registration of convicts living outside the city limits.
(1) Every convicted person required to register under division (A) above, except such persons as are referred to in division (E)(2) below, who enters and remains in the city for 24 hours, shall, within three hours after the expiration of such 24-hour period, furnish to the City Police Department, a written statement in like form and containing all of the information required by division (C) above and shall, in addition thereof, state in such statement the date that he or she entered the state, and each of his or her places of residence or abode for the three-month period next preceding the date of his or her arrival in the city.
(2) Any convicted person who does not reside in the city, has a temporary or permanent place of abode outside the city, and comes into or is within the city limits on five or more occasions during any 30-day period, shall be subject to the provisions of division (A) above and shall, immediately upon entering the city on such fifth occasion, register with the City Police Department and furnish the information and materials required by the provisions of division (A) above.
(F) Providing false registration information. No person who is subject to the provisions of division (A) above shall furnish in any statement or report a false or fictitious address, or furnish any false, untrue, or misleading information or statement relating to information required by this section.
(G) Change of address. In the event that any person required to register in accordance with the provisions of division (A) above shall change his or her place of residence, stopping place, or living quarters to a new or different place within the city, he or she shall, within 24 hours after leaving the registered location, notify the City Police Department of the change of address by a new signed statement. The statement shall set forth his or her new address. Similar notification shall be made in the case of additional changes of address.
(H) Public notice of registration requirements. Notice of the requirement to furnish a registration statement by this section shall be provided as follows:
(1) By signs posted at the offices of the City Clerk/Treasurer and the Police Department;
(2) By signs conspicuously posted at all transportation terminals;
(3) By signs conspicuously posted in all places serving alcoholic beverages to the public; and
(4) By signs conspicuously posted at the place for registering at any lodging house, hotel, or motel or, if no place for registering, then at the entrance to any such lodging house, hotel, or motel. At the time of registering or when the accommodations are let, the person letting the lodging shall notify the person seeking the accommodations of the posted notice stipulating the criminal registration requirement, and shall specifically point out the location of such posted notice.
(I) Registration records confidential; exceptions.
(1) Registration statements, photographs, and fingerprints shall at all times be kept by the City Police Department in a file separate and apart from other files and records maintained and kept by the Police Department. The file shall not be opened to inspection by the public or by any person other than a member of the Police Department pursuant to police business.
(2) Any photograph may be exhibited to persons other than police officers of the city for the purpose of assisting in identifying the perpetrators of any crime.
(3) (a) The City Police Department has authority to transmit copies of registration statements, photographs, and fingerprints to the Sheriff of any county in this state, to the head of any organized police department of a municipality, or to the head of any state department engaged in the enforcement of any criminal law of that state, or to the head of any federal law enforcement agency when a request is made in writing by the head of the law enforcement agency asking for the record of a certain person named therein or for the record of a person whose photographs or fingerprints reasonably correspond with photographs or fingerprints submitted with the request.
(b) The written request shall state that the record is deemed necessary for the use of such law enforcement officer or agency for the investigation of a crime or any person who is accused of committing a crime, and shall further state that the record will be used only for that purpose.
(2010 Code, § 99.01) Penalty, see § 130.99