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2025 Vermont Statutes
Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 59 - Lewdness and Prostitution
§ 2637. Appropriating or levying upon earnings of prostitute

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13 VT Stats § 2637
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§ 2637. Appropriating or levying upon earnings of prostitute

(a) A person shall not:

(1) hold, detain, or restrain a person in a house of prostitution for the purpose of compelling such person, directly or indirectly, by the person’s voluntary or involuntary service or labor, to pay, liquidate, or cancel a debt, dues, or obligations incurred or claimed to have been incurred in such house of prostitution; or

(2) accept, receive, levy, or appropriate money or other valuable thing from the proceeds or earnings of a person engaged in prostitution.

(b) An acceptance, receipt, levy, or appropriation of such money or valuable thing shall be presumptive evidence of lack of consideration.

(c) A person who violates a provision of this section shall be punished as provided in section 2635 of this title. (Amended 2001, No. 49, § 17.)

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