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    PROSTITUTION FREE ZONE
    14B.30.010 Prostitution-Free Zones

    A.   For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
    1.  Arrest: to place a person under actual or constructive restraint or to take a person into custody for the purpose of charging that person with an offense.
     
    2.   Essential needs: food, physical care, and medical attention.
     
    3.  Reside:  to occupy one’s principal dwelling; including transient occupancy in a hotel or motel.
     
    4.  Travel: the movement on foot or within or upon a vehicle within a prostitution-free zone from one point to another without delay other than to obey traffic control devices.

    •   Prostitution-free zones are those areas of the City as designated by the City Council under Chapter 14B.30 of this Code, which are areas where the number of arrests where there was probable cause to believe a person has committed any of the offenses enumerated in Section 14B.30.030 for a twelve (12) month period within the eighteen
    • (18) months preceding its designation is significantly higher than that for other similarly sized geographic areas of the City that are not located within a prostitution-free zone.


    14B.30.035 Violation of an exclusion - penalties
     
    A.  It is unlawful for a person to enter or remain in a prostitution-free zone in violation of an exclusion imposed pursuant to this Code.  For violation of this subsection, a court may impose a fine of no more than $500 or imprisonment of no more than 30 days, or both. 
     
    B.  A person who enters or remains in a prostitution-free zone in violation of an exclusion issued pursuant to this Code is subject to arrest for Criminal Trespass (ORS 164.245)
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