§712-1202  Promoting prostitution in the first degree.  (1)  A person commits the offense of promoting prostitution in the first degree if the person knowingly:

    (a)   Advances prostitution by compelling a person by criminal coercion to engage in prostitution, or profits from such coercive conduct by another; or

    (b)   Advances or profits from prostitution of a person less than sixteen years old.

     (2)  Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; am L 1993, c 130, §2]

 

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