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CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF PARMA
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PARMA OHIO
CITY OF PARMA ROSTER OF OFFICIALS (2025)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN- FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART FIFTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
PART NINETEEN - INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
PART TWENTY-ONE - PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM CODE
PART TWENTY-THREE - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 656
Registration of Felons
656.01   Declaration of purpose.
656.02   Registration required.
656.03   Filing report; information.
656.04   Employment information.
656.05   Photographing and fingerprinting required.
656.06   Reporting change of address.
656.07   Registrant leaving City.
656.08   False or misleading information.
656.09   Violations.
656.10   Persons receiving pardon.
656.11   Records to be private.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Division of Police - see ADM. Ch. 143
   Obstructing official business - see GEN. OFF. 606.14
   Carrying concealed weapons - see GEN. OFF. 672.02
656.01   DECLARATION OF PURPOSE.
   By reason of the fact that many of the crimes herein defined are of great danger to this community and have been and are being committed by habitual and dangerous criminals traveling from place to place throughout the State and the United States, and because there is no means whereby the police officers of the City may be apprised of the arrival into the City or the presence in the City of such criminals until after a crime has been committed by them, and because the undisclosed presence of such criminals within the City constitutes a serious menace to the peace, safety and welfare of the residents of the City, it is the intention of Council in the exercise of the police powers of the City to preserve by this chapter the public peace, welfare and safety of its residents and it is hereby declared that this chapter is passed for the purpose of suppressing and preventing crime.
(Ord. 82-63. Passed 4-15-63.)
656.02   REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
   Every person who comes into the City from any point outside the City, whether in transit through the City or otherwise, who has been convicted two or more times in any Federal court or the court of any state of a crime which is a felony under the laws of the United States Government or which, if committed in the State, would have been a felony under the laws of the State, shall report as required in Section 656.03.
(Ord. 82-63. Passed 4-15-63.)
656.03   FILING REPORT; INFORMATION.
   (a)   Every person described in Section 656.02 shall report to the Bureau of Identification of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, within twenty-four hours after arrival within the City. He shall furnish to the Bureau of Identification, in a written statement signed by such person, the true name of such person and each other name or alias by which such person is or has been known, a full and complete description of himself and the name of each crime defined in Section 656.02, of which he shall have been convicted, together with the name of the place where such crime was committed, the name under which he was convicted and the date of the conviction therefor, the name, if any, and the location of each prison, reformatory other penal institution in which he shall have been confined as punishment therefor, together with the location or address of his residence, stopping place or living quarters in the City, and each one thereof, if any, or the address or location of his intended residence, stopping place or living quarters in the City, and each one thereof, with a description of the character of such place, whether a hotel, motel, apartment house, dwelling house or otherwise, giving the street number thereof, if any, or any description of the address or location thereof as will so identify the same as to make it possible to locate, and the length of time for which he expects or intends to reside within the territory or boundaries of the City.
(Ord. 82-63. Passed 4-15-63.)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
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