2009 Nebraska Code
Chapter 28 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
28-830 Human trafficking; forced labor or services; terms, defined.

For purposes of sections 28-830 to 28-832, the following definitions apply:

(1) Actor means a person who solicits, procures, or supervises the services or labor of another person;

(2) Commercial sexual activity means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given, promised to, or received by any person;

(3) Financial harm means theft by extortion as described by section 28-513;

(4) Forced labor or services means labor or services that are performed or provided by another person and are obtained or maintained through:

(a) Inflicting or threatening to inflict serious personal injury as defined by section 28-318;

(b) Physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain another person;

(c) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigration document or any other actual or purported government identification document of another person; or

(d) Causing or threatening to cause financial harm to another person;

(5) Labor means work of economic or financial value;

(6) Maintain means, in relation to labor or services, to secure continued performance thereof, regardless of any initial agreement by the victim to perform such type of service;

(7) Minor means a person younger than eighteen years of age;

(8) Obtain means, in relation to labor or services, to secure performance thereof;

(9) Services means an ongoing relationship between a person and the actor in which the person performs activities under the supervision of or for the benefit of the actor. Commercial sexual activity and sexually-explicit performances are forms of services under this section. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to legalize prostitution;

(10) Sexually-explicit performance means a live or public play, dance, show, or other exhibition intended to arouse or gratify sexual desire or to appeal to prurient interests; and

(11) Trafficking victim means a person subjected to any act or acts prohibited by section 28-831.

Laws 2006, LB 1086, § 10.