2005 Rhode Island Code - § 11-34-5.1 — Deriving support or maintenance from prostitution.

    Any person, knowing a person to be a prostitute, who shall live or derive support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of prostitution, from moneys loaned, advanced to, or charged against the prostitute by any keeper, manager, or inmate of a house of ill fame or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, or who shall share in the earnings, proceeds or moneys, shall be punished by imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions for not less than one year nor more than five (5) years, or by a fine of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000) and not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both, and for every subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment for not less three (3) years and not more than ten (10) years, and by a fine of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000) and not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both. However, nothing in this section shall apply to a minor dependent of the prostitute.