45-5-602. Promoting prostitution. (1) A person commits the offense of promoting prostitution if he purposely or knowingly commits any of the following acts:
     (a) owns, controls, manages, supervises, resides in, or otherwise keeps, alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business;
     (b) procures an inmate for a house of prostitution or a place in a house of prostitution for one who would be an inmate;
     (c) encourages, induces, or otherwise purposely causes another to become or remain a prostitute;
     (d) solicits a person to patronize a prostitute;
     (e) procures a prostitute for a patron;
     (f) transports a person into or within this state with the purpose to promote that person's engaging in prostitution or procures or pays for transportation with that purpose;
     (g) leases or otherwise permits a place controlled by the offender, alone or in association with others, to be regularly used for prostitution or for the procurement of prostitution or fails to make reasonable effort to abate such use by ejecting the tenant, notifying law enforcement authorities, or using other legally available means; or
     (h) lives in whole or in part upon the earnings of a person engaging in prostitution, unless the person is the prostitute's minor child or other legal dependent incapable of self-support.
     (2) A person convicted of promoting prostitution shall be fined not to exceed $500 or be imprisoned in the county jail for any term not to exceed 6 months, or both.

     History: En. 94-5-603 by Sec. 1, Ch. 513, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 2, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 94-5-603(part).