HomeMy WebLinkAbout3294 AN ORDINANCE establishing provisions
for curtailment of prostitution and
related activites and repealing Ordi-
nance 325, Sections 11, 19, 13, 14, 15,
and Ordinance 1979, Section 1.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. PROSTITUTION. It is unlawful for any
person to engage in, or agree to engage in, sexual conduct
with another person in return for payment of a fee.
Section 2. PROMOTING PROSTITUTION. It shall be
unlawful for any person to promote prostitution. A person is
guilty of promoting prostitution if he or she:
(1) Acting other than as a prostitute or as a customer
thereof, he or she knowingly:
(a) causes or aids a person to commit or engage
in prostitution; or
(b) procures or solicits customers for prostitution;
or
(c) provides persons or premises for prostitution;
or
(d) operates or assists in the operation of a
house of prostitution or a prostitution ~nterprise; or
(e) engages in any other conduct designed to
institute, aid, or facilitate an act or enterprise of prostitution~
or ~:%
(2) Acting other than as a prostitute receiving
compensation for personally rendered prostitution services, he
or she accepts or receives money or other compensation pursuant
to an agreement or understanding with a person whereby he partici-
pates or is to participate in the proceeds of prostitution activity.
Section 3. PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE. It is unlawful
for any person to patronize a prostitute. A person is guilty
of patronizing a prostitute if:
(1) Pursuant to a prior understanding or agreement
he or she pays a fee to another person as compensation for such
person, or as compensation for a third person, to engage in sexual
conduct with him or her; or
(2) He or she pays or agrees to pay a fee to another
person pursuant to an understanding or agreement that, in return
therefore, such person will engage in sexual conduct with him
or her; or
(3) He or she solicits or requests another person
to engage in sexual conduct with him or her for a fee.
Section 4. PERMITTING PROSTITUTION. It is unlawful
for any person to permit prostitution in or on premises which
are in his or her possession and/or control. A person is guilty
of permitting prostitution if, having possession or control of
premises which he or she knows, or should know, are being used
for prostitution purposes, he or she fails to make a reasonable
effort to halt or abate such use.
Section 5. PROSTITUTION LOITERING. It is unlawful
for any person to remain in a public place and intentionally
solicit, induce, entice or procure another to commit an act of
prostitution. Among the circumstances which may be considered
in determining if such prohibited conduct is intended are:
(1) If the actor repeatedly beckons to, stops, or
attempts to stop, or engages passers-by in conversation~ or
(2) Repeatedly stops or attempts to stop, motor
vehicles; or
(3) Is a known prostitute or promoter of prostitution.
Section 6. DEFENSE. It shall not be a defense to any
act in this chapter that the sex of the parties or prospective
parties to an act of prostitution or comtemplated act of prosti-
tution is the same. Further, it shall not be a defense to any
act in this chapter that the person who received, agreed to
receive or solicited a fee was male, and the person who paid or
agreed to pay such fee was female.
Section 7. DEFINITIONS: As used in this chapter:
(1) "Public place" is an area generally visable to
public view, including, but not. limited to, streets, sidewalks,
bridges, alleys, plazas, parks, driveways, parking lots, automobiles,
buildings open to the public including those which serve food
and/or drink, doorways and entrances to buildings or dwellings
and the grounds enclosing them, and buildings not open to the
general public, but which are open to a certain class or group
of the general public through the use of club membership or
affiliations with a club or organization, including but not
limited to the United States Armed Forces.
(2) "Known prostitute or promoter of prostitution means
a person who within one year previous to the date of arrest for
violation of this chapter, has within the knowledge of the
arresting officer, been convicted in any court of an offense
involving prostitution.
(3) "Commit prostitution" means to engage in any type
of sexual conduct in return for payments of money or other com-
pensation.
Section 8. PENALTY. Any person violating any of the
provisions of Section 1 thru Sec. 6 of this Ordinance shallbeguilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine not exceeding three
hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the city jail for a period
not to exceed ninety days, or both.
Section 9. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this
amendatory ordinance, or its application to any person or circum-
stance is held invalid the remainder of the act, or the application
of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
APPROVED by the City Council on the first reading
this ~7~%ay of May, 1976.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in
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authentication of such passage this /~7~'~ay of May, 1976.
ATTEST:
G. C. ~DON, Sr., "City'Clerk
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