A COUNTY ORDINANCE DEFINING CRIMINAL SEXUAL

CONTACT FOR HIRE, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONTACT FOR HIRE AND PROVIDING THE MANNER OF ENFORCEMENT

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF SAN JUAN COUNTY,

SJC-11-1 CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONTACT FOR HIRE

"Criminal Sexual Contact for Hire" consists of knowingly engaging in or offering to engage in any sexual activity for hire. As used in this section, sexual activity for hire means the intentional touching of the unclothed primary genital area or anus for monetary reward or payment.

Whoever commits criminal sexual contact for hire is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

SJC-11-2 PATRONIZING CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONTACT FOR HIREES

Patronizing criminal sexual contact for hirees consists of:

occurs or any other place where criminal sexual contact for hire is practiced, encouraged, or allowed with intent to employ another to engage in criminal sexual contact for hire or;

contact for hire, to engage in such acts defined by the above Section SJC-11-1. As used in this section, Criminal Sexual Contact for Hire means, knowingly engaging in or offering to engage in any sexual activity for monetary reward or payment.

petty misdemeanor.

SJC-11-3 PROMOTING CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONTACT FOR HIRE

Promoting criminal sexual contact for hire consists of any person, other than a person providing criminal sexual contact for hire or patron of a criminal sexual contact for hirees;

criminal sexual contact for hire acts are performed or a place where criminal sexual contact for hire is practiced, encouraged or allowed or participating in the establishment, ownership, maintenance or management thereof;

which a person partially or wholly owns or controls, knowing that such premises are intended for use as a house where criminal sexual contact for hire or a place where criminal sexual contact for hire is practiced, encouraged or allowed;

for a place where criminal sexual contact for hire is practiced, encouraged or allowed;

sexual contact for hire acts;

house where criminal contact for hire acts are to be performed, practiced, encouraged or allowed;

hire for a patron and receiving compensation therefore;

transporting a person within the state with the intention of promoting that person’s engaging in criminal sexual contact for hire;

person to come into the state or causing a person to leave the state for the purposes of criminal sexual contact for hire acts;

person into the state or causing a person to leave the state for the purposes of performing criminal sexual contact for hire acts.

Whoever commits promoting criminal sexual contact for hire is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

Accepting the earnings of an individual committing acts of criminal sexual contact for hire consists of accepting, receiving, levying, or appropriating money or anything of value, without consideration, from the proceeds of the earnings of a person engaged in criminal sexual contact for hire, with the knowledge that the person engaged in such criminal sexual contact for hire, and that the earnings are derived from engaging in criminal sexual contact for hire or knowingly owning, or knowingly managing a house or other place where criminal sexual contact for hire is practiced or allowed and living or deriving support or maintenance in whole or in part from the earnings or proceeds of a person engaged in criminal sexual contact for hire at that house or place.

Whoever commits accepting the earnings of a person engaged in criminal sexual contact for hire is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

SJC-11-5 PENALTY

As used in this Ordinance, a person found guilty of a petty misdemeanor shall be fined a fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or imprisoned for not more than ninety (90) days or both such fine and imprisonment.

SJC-11-6 ENFORCEMENT

The provisions of this Ordinance may be enforced by any County, State or other Law Enforcement Officer and said officer may arrest the offender for a violation on view or on a warrant issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.

FINAL APPROVAL THIS 17^th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1981.

ATTEST:

/s/ Carol Bandy, COUNTY CLERK