A. Any person or persons who set up, lease, sell, open, keep, carry on or maintain any bawdy house, house of prostitution, house of ill fame or place of assignation or who knowingly aid or assist in leasing, selling, setting up, keeping, carrying on or maintaining any such house or place shall be deemed ordinance violators; provided, that in all cases of prosecution under this section, common fame shall be competent evidence in support of a complaint thereunder, and every house or place used for the purpose of prostitution, fornication or lewdness in the city shall be taken and deemed to be a bawdy house within the meaning of this section, and any person residing in such house or place with the knowledge of its character shall be presumed, in any prosecution against such house, place, person or persons, to be an ordinance violator as in this section provided.

B. No person shall maintain or operate any place, house, building, vehicle, trailer, or other structure for the purpose of prostitution or assignation.

C. No person shall knowingly own any place, house, building or other structure, or part thereof, or vehicle or trailer, used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation or prostitution, or let, lease or rent or contract to let, lease or rent any such place, premises, or conveyance, or any part thereof, to another with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the intention of the lessee is to use such place, premises or conveyance for prostitution, lewdness or assignation. (Ord. 210 § 4, 1978; 1978 code § 9.30(a), (d), (e))