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Sheffield Lake Overview
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Noise Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
533.01 DEFINITIONS.
533.02 PRESUMPTION OF KNOWLEDGE; ACTUAL NOTICE AND DEFENSE.
533.03 UNLAWFUL SEXUAL CONDUCT WITH A MINOR.
533.04 SEXUAL IMPOSITION.
533.05 IMPORTUNING.
533.06 VOYEURISM.
533.07 PUBLIC INDECENCY.
533.08 PROCURING; ENGAGEMENT IN SEXUAL ACTIVITY FOR HIRE.
533.09 SOLICITING.
533.091 LOITERING TO ENGAGE IN SOLICITATION.
533.10 PROSTITUTION.
533.11 DISSEMINATING MATTER HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.
533.12 DECEPTION TO OBTAIN MATTER HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.
533.13 DISPLAYING MATTER HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.
533.14 PROHIBITION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
533.15 AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES.
533.16 UNLAWFUL DISPLAY OF MATERIALS HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.
533.17 UNLAWFUL EXPOSURE BY WAITERS, WAITRESSES AND ENTERTAINERS.
533.18 COUNSELING OR ASSISTING UNLAWFUL EXPOSURE PROHIBITED.
533.19 EMPLOYMENT OR PAYMENT NOT NECESSARY FOR OFFENSE.
533.20 EXPOSURE TO PERFORMERS IN PUBLIC PROHIBITED.
533.21 COUNSELING OR ASSISTING UNLAWFUL PUBLIC EXPOSURE PROHIBITED.
533.22 EXEMPTION OF THEATRICAL ESTABLISHMENTS.
533.23 PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN SEXUALLY ORIENTED OFFENDERS FROM RESIDING WITHIN 1,000 FEET OF SCHOOLS, PARKS OR LIBRARIES.
533.24 UNLAWFUL ADVERTISING OF MASSAGE.
533.25 DISSEMINATION OF PRIVATE SEXUAL IMAGES.
533.26 GROOMING.
533.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 557 Watercraft
CHAPTER 561 Weeds and Grass
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Sheffield Lake
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 533
Obscenity and Sex Offenses
533.01   Definitions.
533.02   Presumption of knowledge; actual notice and defense.
533.03   Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
533.04   Sexual imposition.
533.05   Importuning.
533.06   Voyeurism.
533.07   Public indecency.
533.08   Procuring; engagement in sexual activity for hire.
533.09   Soliciting.
533.091   Loitering to engage in solicitation.
533.10   Prostitution.
533.11   Disseminating matter harmful to juveniles.
533.12   Deception to obtain matter harmful to juveniles.
533.13   Displaying matter harmful to juveniles.
533.14   Prohibition of child pornography.
533.15   Affirmative defenses.
533.16   Unlawful display of materials harmful to juveniles.
533.17   Unlawful exposure by waiters, waitresses and entertainers.
533.18   Counseling or assisting unlawful exposure prohibited.
533.19   Employment or payment not necessary for offense.
533.20   Exposure to performers in public prohibited.
533.21   Counseling or assisting unlawful public exposure prohibited.
533.22   Exemption of theatrical establishments.
533.23   Prohibition of certain sexually oriented offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of schools, parks or libraries.
533.24   Unlawful advertising of massage.
533.25      Dissemination of private sexual images.
533.26      Grooming.
533.99   Penalty.
 
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Complicity - see GEN. OFF. 501.10
Offensive conduct - see GEN. OFF. 509.03
Telephone harassment - see GEN. OFF. 537.10
Criminal trespass - see GEN. OFF. 541.05
 
 
533.01 DEFINITIONS.
   As used in this chapter:
   (a)   "Sexual conduct" means vaginal intercourse between a male and female; anal intercourse, fellatio and cunnilingus between persons regardless of sex; and, without privilege to do so, the insertion, however slight, of any part of the body or any instrument, apparatus or other object into the vaginal or anal opening of another. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete vaginal or anal intercourse.
   (b)   "Sexual contact" means any touching of an erogenous zone of another, including without limitation the thigh, genitals, buttock, pubic region, or, if such person is a female, a breast, for the purpose of sexually arousing or gratifying either person.
   (c)   "Sexual activity" means sexual conduct or sexual contact, or both.
   (d)   "Prostitute" means a male or female who promiscuously engages in sexual activity for hire, regardless of whether the hire is paid to the prostitute or to another.
   (e)   “Harmful to juveniles” means that quality of any material or performance describing or representing nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sado- masochistic abuse in any form to which all of the following apply:
      (1)   The material or performance, when considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of juveniles in sex.
      (2)   The material or performance is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable for juveniles.
      (3)   The material or performance, when considered as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political and scientific value for juveniles.
   (f)   When considered as a whole, and judged with reference to ordinary adults, or, if it is designed for sexual deviates or other specially susceptible group, judged with reference to such group, any material or performance is "obscene" if any of the following apply:
      (1)   Its dominant appeal is to prurient interest;
      (2)   Its dominant tendency is to arouse lust by displaying or depicting sexual activity, masturbation, sexual excitement or nudity in a way which tends to represent human beings as mere objects of sexual appetite;
      (3)   Its dominant tendency is to arouse lust by displaying or depicting bestiality or extreme or bizarre violence, cruelty or brutality;
      (4)   Its dominant tendency is to appeal to scatological interest by displaying or depicting human bodily functions of elimination in a way which inspires disgust or revulsion in persons with ordinary sensibilities, without serving any genuine scientific, educational, sociological, moral or artistic purpose;
      (5)   It contains a series of displays or descriptions of sexual activity, masturbation, sexual excitement, nudity, bestiality, extreme or bizarre violence, cruelty or brutality, or human bodily functions of elimination, the cumulative effect of which is a dominant tendency to appeal to prurient or scatological interest, when the appeal to such interest is primarily for its own sake or for commercial exploitation, rather than primarily for a genuine scientific, educational, sociological, moral or artistic purpose.
   (g)   "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
   (h)   "Nudity" means the showing, representation or depiction of human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full, opaque covering, or of a female breast with less than a full, opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
   (i)   "Juvenile" means an unmarried person under the age of eighteen.
   (j)   “Licensed medical professional” means any of the following medical professionals:
      (1)    A physician assistant licensed under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4730;
      (2)    A physician authorized under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4731 to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery;
      (3)    A massage therapist licensed under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4731.
   (k)   "Material" means any book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, poster, print, picture, figure, image, description, motion picture film, phonographic record, or tape, or other tangible thing capable of arousing interest through sight, sound, or touch and includes an image or text appearing on a computer monitor, television screen, liquid crystal display, or similar display device or an image or text recorded on a computer hard disk, computer floppy disk, compact disk, magnetic tape or similar data storage device.
   (l)   "Performance" means any motion picture, preview, trailer, play, show, skit, dance or other exhibition performed before an audience.
   (m)   "Spouse" means a person married to an offender at the time of an alleged offense, except that such person shall not be considered the spouse when any of the following apply:
      (1)   When the parties have entered into a written separation agreement authorized by Ohio R.C. 3103.06;
      (2)   During the pendency of an action between the parties for annulment, divorce, dissolution of marriage or legal separation;
      (3)   In the case of an action for legal separation, after the effective date of the judgment for legal separation.
   (n)   "Minor" means a person under the age of eighteen years.
   (o)   “Mental health client or patient” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C.2305.51.
   (p)   “Mental health professional” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2305.115.
   (q)   “Sado-masochistic abuse” means flagellation or torture by or upon a person or the condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained.
      (ORC 2907.01)
   (r)   “Knowledge of character” means having general knowledge, or reason to know; or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry, of the nature and character of the material or performance involved. A person has such knowledge when he or she knows or is aware that the material or performance contains, depicts or describes sexually explicit nudity, sexual activity, sadomasochistic sexual abuse, or lewd exhibition of the genitals, whichever is applicable, whether or not such person has precise knowledge of the specific contents thereof. Such knowledge may be proven by direct or circumstantial evidence, or both.
   (s)   “Person” means any individual, corporation, company, business, partnership, association, establishment or other legal entity of any kind.
   (t)   “Public place” means a place to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to, highways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, parks, playgrounds and hallways, lobbies and other portions of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence, and an establishment which serves food, beverages or food and beverages including, but not limited to, alcoholic beverages, for consumption on the premises including but not limited to, private clubs.
   (u)   “Theater” means a building, play house, room, hall or other place having a permanent parcel stage upon which movable scenery and theatrical or vaudeville or similar performances are given and seats so arranged that a body of spectators can have an unobstructed view of the stage.
      (Ord. 10-89. Passed 2-14-89.)
   (v)   “Place where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy” means a place where a reasonable person would believe that the person could fully disrobe in private.
   (w)   “Private area” means the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast below the top of the areola, where nude or covered by an under-garment.
      (ORC 2907.01)

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• Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
• ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
• ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
• ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
• orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
• ordinary adults, or, if it is designed for sexual deviates or other specially susceptible group, judged with reference to such group, any material or performance is "obscene" if any o
• ordinary sensibilities, without serving any genuine scientific, educational, sociological, moral or artistic purpose;
• ord, or tape, or other tangible thing capable of arousing interest through sight, sound, or touch and includes an image or text appearing on a computer monitor, television screen, liq
• orded on a computer hard disk, computer floppy disk, compact disk, magnetic tape or similar data storage device
• effective date of the judgment for legal separation
• Ord. 10-89
• Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality
• Ordinances should be consulted prior to any action being taken
• Ordinances or other documents posted on this site, please contact the Municipality directly or contact American Legal Publishing toll-free at 800-445-5588

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