Prostitution.
North Las Vegas Municipal Code § 9.08.030
in effect9.08.030 - Prostitution.
A. Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the words set out in this section are defined as follows:
1. "Prostitution" means an act by any person, performed for a fee, of engaging in sexual intercourse, oral-genital contact, or any touching of the sexual organs or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either person.
2. "Public place" means any street, sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility or the doorways and entrance ways to any building that fronts on any of the aforesaid places, or a motor vehicle in or on any such place.
B. Loitering for Prostitution. Any person who remains or wanders about in a public place, or on private property not owned by or in the lawful control of such person, and repeatedly beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or repeatedly attempts to stop, or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in conversation, or repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly interferes with the free passage of other persons, for the purpose of prostitution, or of patronizing a person engaged in prostitution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
C. Room Register of Lodging Places.
1. Every person within the limits of the City who keeps, maintains or controls any hotel, rooming house, or lodging house shall provide, keep and maintain a public register, and shall require every person who rents, or occupies a room in such hotel, rooming house or lodging house, to write in such register his name and place of residence. Such registration shall be made on a page of the register, properly dated, with reference to the day of the year, month, and week, and the time of day the person rents or arranges to occupy a room shall also be entered.
2. Such hotel, rooming house or lodging house register so kept shall be open to the public at any and all reasonable hours, and the pages thereof shall be open for inspection or investigation by any member of the police department or other peace officer immediately upon demand by any such member of the police department or other peace officer.
(Ord. 2292 § 1, 2006: Ord. 906 § 2, 1988: prior code §§ 7.10.010, 7.10.030, 7.10.040)
Source: City of North Las Vegas, Nevada, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/nv/north_las_vegas/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT9PUPEMOWE_CH9.08OFAGPUPEDE_9.08.030PRFetched: 11/1/2026