(a) No resident of the City who has been convicted in any court of any state or in any Federal court of a crime which is a felony under the laws of such state or of the United States or which, if committed in the State of Ohio, would have been a felony under the laws of this State and who is currently on parole or probation for such a crime shall knowingly fail to report as required in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Every person described in subsection (a) hereof shall report to the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, within one week after taking up residency in the City, and on a written form provided by the Police Division, state on such form, which shall be signed by such person, the true name of such person and every other name or alias by which such person is or has been known, a full and complete physical description of himself, the name of each crime described in subsection (a) hereof of which he has been convicted, together with the name of the place where such crime was committed, the name under which he was convicted and the year of the conviction therefor, the address of his residence in the City and the date of his most recent release from incarceration for the commission of a crime described in subsection (a) hereof.
(c) At the time of furnishing the information required by this section, such person shall be photographed and fingerprinted by the Division of Police and such photograph and fingerprints shall be made a part of the records of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety.
(d) No person described in subsection (a) hereof upon changing his place of residence in the City, shall knowingly fail, within thirty-one days after so changing his residence, to notify the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in a written statement on a form provided by the Division of Police and signed by such person, of such change of address and the new address of his residence in the City.
(e) Five years after the most recent release from incarceration for a crime described in subsection (a) hereof of any person described in subsection (a) or, in the event no incarceration was imposed, five years from the date of the last conviction, the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, shall remove from its files and destroy all reports, records, photographs and fingerprints of such person taken or received pursuant to this section.
(f) All reports, records, photographs and fingerprints taken pursuant to this section shall be the private records of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, open to inspection only by City or police officers, or persons having official duties to perform in connection therewith. No person having access to such records shall disclose to any other person other than in the regular discharge of his duties, any information contained therein.
(g) Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to apply to any person who has received a pardon for each such crime of which he was convicted.
(h) Whoever knowingly violates this section is guilty of failure to register as a felon, a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord 85-52. Passed 9-17-85.)