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§ 2907.22. Promoting prostitution.
 

(A)  No person shall knowingly: 

(1) Establish, maintain, operate, manage, supervise, control, or have an interest in a brothel; 

(2) Supervise, manage, or control the activities of a prostitute in engaging in sexual activity for hire; 

(3) Transport another, or cause another to be transported across the boundary of this state or of any county in this state, in order to facilitate the other person's engaging in sexual activity for hire; 

(4) For the purpose of violating or facilitating a violation of this section, induce or procure another to engage in sexual activity for hire. 

(B)  Whoever violates this section is guilty of promoting prostitution, a felony of the fourth degree. If any prostitute in the brothel involved in the offense, or the prostitute whose activities are supervised, managed, or controlled by the offender, or the person transported, induced, or procured by the offender to engage in sexual activity for hire, is a minor, whether or not the offender knows the age of the minor, then promoting prostitution is a felony of the third degree. 
 

HISTORY: 134 v H 511 (Eff 1-1-74); 142 v H 51 (Eff 3-17-89); 146 v S 2. Eff 7-1-96.
 

Not analogous to former RC § 2907.22 (RS § 6857; S&C 412; 33 v 33; GC § 12448; 107 v 558; 110 v 58; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53), repealed 134 v H 511, § 2, eff 1-1-74.

The effective date is set by section 6 of SB 2. 

 

19xx Committee Report or Comment.

1974 Committee Comment to H 511

This section forbids various acts which, individually and collectively, either constitute or further the business enterprise of prostitution, and is intended to consolidate and streamline a number of former measures directed against establishing and maintaining brothels, as well as those that prohibit trafficking in human flesh. Strict liability as to age is imposed when a victim is in early adolescence, and the penalty is more severe in such cases. Former language characterizing brothels as public nuisances is omitted, since the same thing is accomplished in existing sections 3767.01 to 3767.99 of the Revised Code. 

Promoting prostitution is a felony of the fourth degree. If a victim of the offense is under 16, promoting prostitution is a felony of the third degree.