§712-1203  Promoting prostitution in the second degree.  (1)  A person commits the offense of promoting prostitution in the second degree if the person knowingly:

    (a)   Advances or profits from prostitution by managing, supervising, controlling, or owning, either alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involving prostitution activity by two or more prostitutes; or

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

     (2)  Promoting prostitution in the second degree is a class C felony. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; am L 1993, c 130, §3]

 

Case Notes

 

  Statements made by women constituted verbal acts and were admissible against defendant charged under subsection (1)(a).  59 H. 401, 581 P.2d 1171.

  Section 701-109(1)(d) prohibits conviction under both this section and §842-2(2), as both this section and §842-2(2) seek to redress the same conduct--the control of an enterprise involved in criminal activity.  In such case, this section, the specific statute, governs over the general statute, §842-2(2).  88 H. 19, 960 P.2d 1227.

  Cited:  58 H. 299, 568 P.2d 504.