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(a) No person shall engage in sexual activity for hire.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of prostitution, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(ORC 2907.25; Ord. 278-73. Passed 12-17-73.)
Statutory reference:
Offenders with knowledge that they test HIV positive, felony, see Ohio R.C. 2907.25(B)
Testing offenders for venereal disease and AIDS, see Ohio R.C. 2907.27
(a) In any case in which it is necessary to prove that a place is a brothel, evidence as to the reputation of such place and as to the reputation of the persons who inhabit or frequent it is admissible on the question of whether such place is or is not a brothel.
(b) In any case in which it is necessary to prove that a person is a prostitute, evidence as to the reputation of such person is admissible on the question of whether such person is or is not a prostitute.
(d) The prohibition contained in Ohio R.C. 2317.02(D) against testimony by a husband or wife concerning communications between them does not apply, and the accused’s spouse may testify concerning any such communication in any of the following cases:
(1) When the husband or wife is charged with a violation of Section 666.07 and the spouse testifying was the prostitute involved in the offense or the person who used the offender’s premises to engage in sexual activity for hire;
(ORC 2907.26; Ord. 278-73. Passed 12-17-73.)
(a) No owner or manager, or his agent or employee, of a bookstore, newsstand, theater or other commercial establishment shall:
(1) Knowingly display or permit the display of any material or performance, which is obscene or harmful to juveniles, in such a manner or in such a location within the establishment that the offensive material or performance may at any time or in any manner be seen by juveniles; or
(2) Knowingly display or permit the display, on or within the establishment, of any advertisement, relating to any material which is obscene or harmful to juveniles, which is graphic or which is worded in such a manner as to render the advertisement itself obscene or harmful to juveniles as defined in Sections 666.01(a) and (f).
(b) No person, with knowledge of its character, shall knowingly or recklessly present, sell or otherwise furnish to a juvenile any material or performance which is obscene or harmful to juveniles.
(c) The following are affirmative defenses to a charge under subsection (b) hereof which involves material or a performance which 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 the material or performance was presented to him, was accompanied by his 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 agent or employee a draft card, driver's license, birth record, marriage license or other official or apparently official document purporting to show that such juvenile was eighteen 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 and unmarried.
(d) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under subsection (b) hereof, involving material or a performance which 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 purpose, by a physician, psychologist, sociologist, scientist, teacher, librarian, clergyman, prosecutor, judge or other proper person.
(e) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of exposing juveniles to harmful materials, a misdemeanor of the first degree, provided the material or performance involved is harmful to juveniles, but not obscene. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 155-77. Passed 4-18-83.)
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Section 666.125 was repealed by Ordinance 66-97, passed March 18, 1997, because a violation of substantially equivalent State law (Ohio R.C. 2907.322 and 2907.323) was made a felony by the Ohio General Assembly by Am. Sub. S.B. No. 2, effective July 1, 1996.)
(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 the juvenile.
(2) Furnish the juvenile with any identification or document purporting to show that the juvenile is 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 18 years of age or over or married.
(2) Exhibit any identification or document purporting to show that he or she is 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 division (b) of this section shall be adjudged an unruly child, with the disposition of the case as may be appropriate under Ohio R.C. Chapter 2151.
(ORC 2907.33; Ord. 278-73. Passed 12-17-73.)
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