§83.2. Promoting prostitution
A. Promoting prostitution is the knowing and willful control of, supervision of, or
management of an enterprise for profit in which customers are charged a fee for services
which include prostitution, regardless of what portion of the fee is actually for the
prostitution services.
B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of promoting prostitution shall be fined not more
than five thousand dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two
years, or both.
(2) Whoever commits the crime of promoting prostitution of persons under the age
of eighteen years shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor
for not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least five years being
served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.
(3) Whoever commits the crime of promoting prostitution of persons under the age
of fourteen years shall be fined not more than seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at
hard labor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least
ten years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.
(4) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 352, §2.
Acts 1984, No. 580, §1; Acts 2012, No. 446, §1; Acts 2013, No. 83, §1; Acts 2014,
No. 564, §1; Acts 2017, No. 180, §1, eff. June 12, 2017; Acts 2020, No. 352, §2; Acts 2025,
No. 230, §1.