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2021 Tennessee Code
Title 39 - Criminal Offenses
Chapter 13 - Offenses Against Person
Part 5 - Sexual Offenses
§ 39-13-515. Promoting Prostitution – Unacceptable Defenses
Universal Citation: TN Code § 39-13-515 (2021)
- A person commits an offense under this section:
- Who promotes prostitution; or
- Who promotes prostitution where the subject of the offense is a law enforcement officer or is a law enforcement officer eighteen (18) years of age or older posing as a minor.
- Except as provided in subsection (c), promoting prostitution is a Class E felony.
- Promoting prostitution is punishable as:
- Trafficking for a commercial sex act under § 39-13-309 if the person being promoted is less than eighteen (18) years of age; or
- A Class D felony if the person being promoted has an intellectual disability as defined in § 33-1-101.
- It is not a defense to a violation of this section that:
- The subject of the offense is a law enforcement officer;
- The victim of the offense is a minor and consented to the offense; or
- The solicitation was unsuccessful, the conduct solicited was not engaged in, or a law enforcement officer could not engage in the solicited offense.
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