Subject: 9915/Code/25-96/Prostitution
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1989 12:20:00 -0500


                              ORDINANCE NO.   9915 
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                   PART II, CHAPTER 25, SECTION 25-96, RELATIVE
                   TO DEFINITIONS FOR PROSTITUTION AND RELATED
                   OFFENSES.
                  
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
       	    	 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE:
       	    	 SECTION 1.  That Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter
       25, Section 25-96 be and is hereby deleted in its entirety and 
the
       following substituted in lieu thereof:
            Sec. 25-96.	   Definitions.
           
            	 As used in this division, the following words and
            terms shall have the following meanings:
           
            	 Assignation shall be construed to include the
            making of any appointment or engagement for prostitution
            or for the purpose of fellatio or cunnilingus, or any
            act in furtherance of such appointment or engagement.
           
            	 Patronizing shall be construed to include the
            solicitation or hiring of another person with the intent
            that the other person engage in prostitution, entering
            or remaining in a house of prostitution for the purpose
            of engaging in sexual activity. 
           
            	 Promoting prostitution shall be construed to
            include: 
           
            	 (1)  owning, controlling, managing, supervising or
                      in anyway keeping, alone or in association
                      with others, a business for the purpose of
                      engaging in prostitution, or a house of
                      prostitution;
           
            	 (2)  encouraging, inducing, or otherwise purposely
                      causing another to become a prostitute;
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            	 (3)  soliciting a person to patronize a prostitute;
           
            	 (4)  procuring a prostitute for a patron; and/or
           
            	 (5)  paying, receiving, or agreeing to receive any
                      benefit for engaging in any of the activities
                      defined as the unlawful act of promoting
                      prostitution.
           
            	 Prostitution shall be construed to include the
            giving or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse
            for hire (or for licentious sexual intercourse without
            hire).
           
           
       	    	 SECTION 2.  That this ordinance shall be effective two
       (2) weeks from and after its passage as provided by law.
      
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading July 13, 1993.	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
      
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:   X   DISAPPROVED: _______
      
       	    	      	   	     DATE:  July 15, 1993.
      
      
       	    	      	   	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	       	    MAYOR
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