Earlier editions: 2026-09
Title IX — PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY
Alhambra Municipal Code Ch. 9.48 Prostitution
Alhambra Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Alhambra
Cite as: Alhambra Municipal Code Chapter 9.48 · Text as of 2026-10-04
§ 9.48.010 PROSTITUTION AND SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; GENERAL PROHIBITION.¶
It shall be unlawful for any woman to offer her body for the purpose of prostitution or to solicit any man for money to have carnal intercourse with her, or to agree to have carnal intercourse with any man for money, within the city.
(Prior Code § 22.32) (Ord. 1452 § 1)
*Charter provisions as to power of city to restrain prostitution, see Char. § 61(39)
§ 9.48.020 SOLICITATION UNLAWFUL.¶
It shall be unlawful for any person upon any public street or in any rooming house, hotel, park or other place in the city to solicit a person of the opposite sex to whom he is not married, to have sexual intercourse with such person so soliciting.
(Prior Code § 22.33) (Ord. 1452 § 2)
§ 9.48.030 RESORTING TO HOTELS, ROOMING HOUSES UNLAWFUL.¶
It shall be unlawful for any person to resort to any rooming house, lodging house, hotel or other place in the city for the purpose of having therein sexual intercourse with a person to whom he is not married.
(Prior Code § 22.34) (Ord. 1452 § 5)
§ 9.48.040 RESORTING TO OFFICE BUILDINGS, CAFES, PARKS UNLAWFUL.¶
It shall be unlawful for any person to resort to any office building or to any room used or occupied in connection with, or under the same management as any cafe, restaurant, soft drink parlor or similar business, or to any public park or to any of the buildings therein, or to any vacant lot or to any of those similar in character to those mentioned herein for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with a person to whom he is not married.
(Prior Code § 22.35) (Ord. 1452 § 3)
§ 9.48.050 INDUCING PERSONS TO PATRONIZE PROSTITUTES.¶
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, procure, induce, persuade or to encourage any other person to patronize a prostitute or a house of prostitution, or to offer or agree to provide any person with a prostitute, or to direct or conduct another person to a house of prostitution, or to a place where a prostitute may be hired or obtained, or to solicit patronage for a prostitute or a house of prostitution, or to take or offer or agree to take another person to any place or to any other person, with the knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the purpose of such directing, taking or conducting is prostitution, lewdness or assignation.
(Prior Code § 22.36) (Ord. 1452 § 4)
§ 9.48.060 RENTING ROOMS OR APARTMENTS FOR PURPOSES OF PROSTITUTION.¶
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, let or assign any room or apartment in the city with the understanding or belief that such room or apartment is to be used by the person to whom it is so let, rented or assigned for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with a person to whom he is not married.
(Prior Code § 22.37) (Ord. 1452 § 6)
§ 9.48.070 USE OF VEHICLES FOR HIRE FOR PURPOSES OF PROSTITUTION.¶
(A) It shall be unlawful for the driver of any public vehicle to permit any person to occupy or use such vehicle for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation, with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the same is, or it is to be occupied or used for such purpose, or to direct, take or transport any person to any building or place, or to any other person, with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the purpose of such transporting is prostitution, lewdness or assignation.
(B) For the purpose of this section the term "public vehicle" is hereby defined to mean any cab, taxicab, for-hire automobile of any other vehicle engaged in the transportation of persons for hire.
(Prior Code § 22.38) (Ord. 1452 § 7)
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