Drafter
Clerk 11/09//2004
Title
AN ORDINANCE establishing the designation of antiprostitution emphasis areas within King County; and establishing the violation of court-ordered conditions related to the antiprostitution areas as a new offense; and prescribing penalties.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the King County council to establish in the King County Code areas that have been identified by law enforcement through a history of arrests and observation to be locales where individuals engaging in acts of prostitution congregate for purposes of solicitation as designated by state law. The following sections identify those areas that have been identified as meeting the criteria for being areas of prostitution.
SECTION 2. The following described areas of King County are designated to be antiprostitution emphasis areas and penalties shall be applied in event of conviction of unlawful acts of prostitution, prostitution loitering, permitting prostitution or pandering, or patronizing a prostitute, within the areas, in accordance with this ordinance, to ensure elimination of all prostitution and prostitution-related activity within these areas:
A. The area of Pacific Highway South between South 116th and 128th Street, Military Road South and South 140th and South 152nd, 42nd South and South 139th to South 144th, including the motels and hotels within these areas, and including the area one block to the east and west of Pacific Highway South, Military Road South and 42nd South within the boundaries;
B. Des Moines Way South from 96th Avenue South to South 128th Street and a block on either side. Military Road South from Des Moines Way South to South 128th Street and 14th Ave. S. from 96th Avenue S. to the South Park Bridge; and
C. The Southwest Roxbury from 4th Avenue SW to 17th Avenue SW and from Roxbury Avenue SW to 107th Avenue SW on 14th Avenue SW and 15th Avenue SW and 16th Avenue SW and 17t...

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