Current through 2023 Legislative Sessions
Section 12.1-29-02 - Facilitating prostitution1. A person is guilty of an offense if the person:a. Knowingly solicits a person to patronize a prostitute;b. Knowingly procures a prostitute for a patron;c. Knowingly leases or otherwise permits a place controlled by the actor, alone or in association with others, to be regularly used for prostitution, promoting prostitution, or facilitating prostitution, or fails to make reasonable effort to abate such use by ejecting the tenant, notifying law enforcement authorities, or taking other legally available means; ord. Knowingly induces or otherwise intentionally causes another to remain a prostitute. A person who is supported in whole or substantial part by the proceeds of prostitution, other than the prostitute or the prostitute's minor child or a person whom the prostitute is required by law to support, is presumed to be knowingly inducing or intentionally causing another to remain a prostitute.2. The offense is a class A felony if the actor intentionally causes another to remain a prostitute by force, coercion, threat, or deception, or the prostitute is the actor's spouse or ward, or a person for whose care, protection, or support the actor is responsible. Otherwise it is a class C felony.Amended by S.L. 2015, ch. 109 (SB 2250),§ 1, eff. 8/1/2015.