(a) A person is guilty of promoting prostitution who: (1) owns, controls, manages, supervises or otherwise keeps, alone or in association with others, a place of prostitution or a prostitution enterprise; or (2) knowingly solicits, induces or causes a person to commit or engage in prostitution or to reside in or occupy a place of prostitution. (b) Promoting prostitution is a felony of the third degree. (c) It shall not be a defense to a prosecution under this section that the place of prostitution or prostitution enterprise is licensed for any purpose other than prostitution or that the act or the attempted act of prostitution that is promoted occurs at a place other than the site of the offense charged under this section.
SOURCE: G.P.C. §§ 266, 266a, 266b, 266f, 315, 316; see also §§ 266e, 266f; M.P.C. § 251.2(2), (3); *Cal. § 1803 (T.D.2 1968); Cal. § 954 (1971); Mass. ch. 272, § 4(a), (f)(3); N.J. § 2C:34-2(b), (c). Amended by P.L. 22-158:3 (12/30/94).