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      21-3513.   Promoting prostitution. (a) Promoting prostitution is:

      (1)   Establishing, owning, maintaining or managing a house of prostitution, or participating in the establishment, ownership, maintenance, or management thereof;

      (2)   permitting any place partially or wholly owned or controlled by the defendant to be used as a house of prostitution;

      (3)   procuring a prostitute for a house of prostitution;

      (4)   inducing another to become a prostitute;

      (5)   soliciting a patron for a prostitute or for a house of prostitution;

      (6)   procuring a prostitute for a patron;

      (7)   procuring transportation for, paying for the transportation of, or transporting a person within this state with the intention of assisting or promoting that person's engaging in prostitution; or

      (8)   being employed to perform any act which is prohibited by this section.

      (b) (1)   Promoting prostitution is a class A person misdemeanor when the prostitute is 16 or more years of age.

      (2)   Promoting prostitution when the prostitute is 16 or more years of age is a severity level 7, person felony if committed by a person who has, prior to the commission of the crime, been convicted of promoting prostitution.

      (3)   Except as provided in paragraph (4), promoting prostitution is a severity level 6, person felony when the prostitute is under 16 years of age.

      (4)   Promoting prostitution is an off-grid person felony when the offender is 18 years of age or older and the prostitute is less than 14 years of age.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3513; L. 1986, ch. 120, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 298, § 28; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 50; L. 1994, ch. 291, § 25; L. 2006, ch. 212, § 12; July 1.