§ 9.08.170. Prostitution.

A.

In this section the following words have the meanings indicated:

1.

"Assignation" means the making of an appointment or engagement for prostitution or any act in furtherance of the appointment or engagement.

2.

"Bawdy house" means an establishment where prostitution occurs.

3.

"Prostitution" means the offering or receiving of the human body for sexual intercourse for hire or any type of sexual act for hire.

4.

"Public place" means any street, sidewalk, footpath, bridge, alley, plaza, park, driveway, public parking lot, private parking lot used for public purposes, transportation facility, or a motor vehicle in or on any such place.

B.

No person shall loiter, stand or wander about in a public place so as to beckon to, repeatedly stop, repeatedly attempt to engage passersby in conversation, repeatedly stop or attempt to stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly interfere with the free passage of other people for the purpose of engaging in or promoting prostitution or assignation.

C.

No person shall walk, drive, ride or by other means travel over or on any public place within the corporate limits of the city:

1.

Soliciting, by words or conduct, another or others to commit prostitution; or

2.

Endeavoring to induce or permitting another or others to follow, accompany or meet with such person for the purpose of committing prostitution.

D.

No person, being owner thereof or having any interest, estate or right therein, or any agent of such owner, shall lease, lend, sell, give, keep, conduct, use or rent any room, flat apartment, tenement, dwelling house within the corporate limits of the city, for the purpose of prostitution or for use as a bawdy house or by common prostitutes.

E.

No person shall frequent, visit, enter, live in or be found in any bawdy house within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of engaging in or promoting prostitution.

F.

Any person convicted of violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both.

(Ord. 1718, 1999)