2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
Chapter 30 - Trafficking of Persons
3001 - Definitions.


                                CHAPTER 30
                          TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS

     Sec.
     3001.  Definitions.
     3002.  Trafficking of persons.
     3003.  Restitution for offenses.
     3004.  Forfeiture.

        Enactment.  Chapter 30 was added November 9, 2006, P.L.1340,
     No.139, effective in 60 days.
        Cross References.  Chapter 30 is referred to in section 911
     of this title.
     § 3001.  Definitions.
        The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
     shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
     context clearly indicates otherwise:
        "Criminal coercion."  The term includes conduct defined as
     criminal coercion by section 2906 (relating to criminal
     coercion).
        "Forced labor or services."  Labor or services that are
     performed or provided by another person which are obtained or
     maintained when a person:
            (1)  attempts to cause, causes or by threat of physical
        menace puts another person in fear of bodily injury;
            (2)  physically restrains or threatens to physically
        restrain another person unlawfully;
            (3)  abuses or threatens to abuse the law or legal
        process;
            (4)  possesses except as required by Federal immigration
        law or regulation, destroys, conceals, removes or confiscates
        any actual or purported passport or other immigration
        document of another person, or any other actual or purported
        government identification document of another person; or
            (5)  engages in criminal coercion of another person.
        "Traffics."  Recruits, entices, harbors, transports or
     provides or obtains by any means.

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