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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 503 Unlawful Discriminatory Practices
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 507 Civil Emergencies
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 511 Fireworks
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 543 Trees and Noxious Vegetation
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - NUISANCE AND PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
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533.08 SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.
   (a)   As used in this section, "sexual activity for hire" means an implicit or explicit agreement to provide sexual activity in exchange for anything of value paid to the person engaging in such sexual activity, to any person trafficking that person or to any person associated with either such person.
   (b)   No person shall recklessly induce, entice, or procure another to engage in sexual activity for hire in exchange for the person giving anything of value to the other person.
   (c)   Whoever violates division (b) of this section is guilty of engaging in sexual exploitation, an unclassified misdemeanor.
      (1)   In addition to any other penalties imposed by the court, the offender shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars ($300.00) and notwithstanding the fine specified in division (A)(2)(a) of R.C. § 2929.28 for a misdemeanor of the first degree, the court may impose upon the offender a fine of not more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500).
      (2)   If the offender, within the past five years, previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of this section, or other equivalent offense, in addition to any other penalties imposed by the court, the offender shall be fined not less than five hundred fifty dollars ($550.00) and shall serve not less than ten days in jail.
      (3)   If the offender within the past five years previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two or more violations of this section, or other equivalent offense, in addition to other penalties imposed by the court, the offender shall be fined not less than eight hundred dollars ($800.00) and shall serve not less than 15 days in jail.
(Ord. 70-2021. Passed 5-24-21.)
533.09 SOLICITING; LOITERING TO ENGAGE IN.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly solicit another to engage with the other person in sexual activity for hire in exchange for the person receiving anything of value from the other person.
   (b)   Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of soliciting, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
   (c)   As used in division (a) of this section: "Sexual activity for hire" means an implicit or explicit agreement to provide sexual activity in exchange for anything of value paid to the person engaging in such sexual activity, to any person trafficking that person, or to any person associated with either such person.
   (d)   No person, with purpose to solicit another to engage in sexual activity for hire and while in or near a public place, shall do any of the following:
      (1)   Beckon to, stop or attempt to stop another;
      (2)   Engage or attempt to engage another in conversation;
      (3)   Stop or attempt to stop the operator of a vehicle or approach a stationary vehicle;
      (4)   If the offender is the operator of or a passenger in a vehicle, stop, attempt to stop, beckon to, attempt to beckon to, or entice another to approach or enter the vehicle of which the offender is the operator or in which the offender is the passenger;
      (5)   Interfere with the free passage of another.
   (e)   As used in division (d) of this section:
      (1)   "Public place" means any of the following:
         A.   A street, road, highway, thoroughfare, bikeway, walkway, sidewalk, bridge, alley, alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility.
         B.   A doorway or entrance way to a building that fronts on a place described in division A. of this definition.
         C.   A place not described in division A. or B. of this definition that is open to the public.
      (2)   "Vehicle" has the same meaning as in R.C. § 4501.01.
   (f)   Whoever violates division (d) or (e) of this section is guilty of loitering to engage in solicitation, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 71-2021. Passed 5-24-21.)
533.10 PROSTITUTION.
   (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)
533.11 DISPLAY AND DISSEMINATION OF MATERIALS HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.
   (a)   No person having custody, control or supervision of any commercial establishment shall knowingly display or disseminate material which is harmful to juveniles in such a way that juveniles, as a part of the invited general public, will be exposed to view such material or that such material will be disseminated to juveniles. A person shall be deemed not to have displayed or disseminated material harmful to juveniles if the material is kept behind devices commonly known as "blinder racks", so that the lower two-thirds of the material is not exposed to view and the invited members of the general public, prior to viewing the entire material, present identification that the requesting party is not a juvenile or if the material is kept out of normal viewing of the invited general public and the titles are listed in a separate binder available upon request to invited members of the general public who are not juveniles and invited members of the general public, prior to viewing the entire material, present identification that the requesting party is not a juvenile.
(Ord. 3-87. Passed 1-26-87.)
   (b)   The following are affirmative defenses to a charge under this section, involving material or a performance which is harmful to juveniles:
      (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 certificate, 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.
   (c)   It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section, involving material or a performance which is harmful to juveniles, that such material or performance was furnished or presented for a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, governmental, judicial or other proper purpose, by a physician, psychologist, sociologist, scientist, teacher, librarian, clergyman, prosecutor, judge or other proper person.
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a misdemeanor of the first degree, if the material or the performance involved is harmful to juveniles but not obscene.
(Ord. 146-77. Passed 12-19-77.)
533.12 PANDERING OBSCENITY. (REPEALED)
   (EDITOR’S NOTE: Section 533.12 was repealed as part of the 1996-B revision of these Codified Ordinances because a violation of substantially identical State law (Ohio R.C. 2907.32) was made a felony by the General Assembly.)
(Ord. 45-77. Passed 3-28-77.)
533.13 DECEPTION TO OBTAIN MATTER HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.
   (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)
533.14 OBSCENE OR PROFANE LANGUAGE.
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: Former Section 533.14 was repealed by Ordinance 113-93, passed September 13, 1993.)
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