Title PE, Penal Code

Sec. 43.031. ONLINE PROMOTION OF PROSTITUTION. (a) A person commits an offense if the person owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer service or information content provider, or operates as an information content provider, with the intent to promote the prostitution of …

Sec. 43.032. CONTINUOUS PROMOTION OF PROSTITUTION. (a) A person commits an offense if, during a period that is 30 or more days in duration, the person engages two or more times in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 43.03. (b) If a jury is the trier of fact, members…

Sec. 43.04. AGGRAVATED PROMOTION OF PROSTITUTION. (a) A person commits an offense if he knowingly owns, invests in, finances, controls, supervises, or manages a prostitution enterprise that uses two or more prostitutes. (b) An offense under this section is a felony of the first d…

Sec. 43.041. AGGRAVATED ONLINE PROMOTION OF PROSTITUTION. (a) A person commits an offense if the person owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer service or information content provider, or operates as an information content provider, with the intent to promote the prost…

Sec. 43.05. COMPELLING PROSTITUTION. (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly: (1) causes another by force, threat, coercion, or fraud to commit prostitution; (2) causes by any means a child younger than 18 years to commit prostitution, regardless of whether the ac…

Sec. 43.06. ACCOMPLICE WITNESS; TESTIMONY AND IMMUNITY. (a) A party to an offense under this subchapter may be required to furnish evidence or testify about the offense. (b) A party to an offense under this subchapter may not be prosecuted for any offense about which he is requir…

Sec. 43.21. DEFINITIONS. (a) In this subchapter: (1) "Obscene" means material or a performance that: (A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest in sex; (B) depicts or describes: (i) patently…

Sec. 43.22. OBSCENE DISPLAY OR DISTRIBUTION. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly displays or distributes an obscene photograph, drawing, or similar visual representation or other obscene material and is reckless about whether a person is present who w…

Sec. 43.23. OBSCENITY. (a) A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (h), an offense under Subsection (a) is a…

Sec. 43.231. PROMOTION OR POSSESSION OF CHILD-LIKE SEX DOLL. (a) In this section, "child-like sex doll" means an obscene, anatomically correct doll, mannequin, or robot that has the features of a child and that is intended to be used for sexual stimulation or gratification. (b) A…

Sec. 43.235. POSSESSION, PROMOTION, OR PRODUCTION OF CERTAIN VISUAL MATERIAL APPEARING TO DEPICT CHILD. (a) In this section: (1) "Promote" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.25. (2) "Visual material" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.26. (b) A person commits an offense i…

Sec. 43.24. SALE, DISTRIBUTION, OR DISPLAY OF HARMFUL MATERIAL TO MINOR. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Minor" means an individual younger than 18 years. (2) "Harmful material" means material whose dominant theme taken as a whole: (A) appeals to the prurient interest of a…

Sec. 43.25. SEXUAL PERFORMANCE BY A CHILD. (a) In this section: (1) "Sexual performance" means any performance or part thereof that includes sexual conduct by a child younger than 18 years of age. (2) "Sexual conduct" means sexual contact, actual or simulated sexual intercourse, …

Sec. 43.251. EMPLOYMENT HARMFUL TO CHILDREN. (a) In this section: (1) "Child" means a person younger than 21 years of age. (2) "Massage" has the meaning assigned to the term "massage therapy" by Section 455.001, Occupations Code. (3) "Massage establishment" has the meaning assign…

Sec. 43.26. POSSESSION OR PROMOTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. (a) In this section: (1) "Depiction of a child" means, with respect to an image of a child contained in visual material: (A) a depiction of a child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the image of the child wa…

Sec. 43.261. ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF CERTAIN VISUAL MATERIAL DEPICTING MINOR. (a) In this section: (1) "Dating relationship" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.0021, Family Code. (2) "Minor" means a person younger than 18 years of age. (3) "Produce" with respect to visual …

Sec. 43.262. POSSESSION OR PROMOTION OF LEWD VISUAL MATERIAL DEPICTING CHILD. (a) In this section: (1) "Promote" and "sexual conduct" have the meanings assigned by Section 43.25. (2) "Visual material" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.26. (b) A person commits an offense if t…

Sec. 43.27. DUTY TO REPORT. (a) For purposes of this section, " visual material" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.26. (b) A business that develops or processes visual material and determines that the material may be evidence of a criminal offense under this subchapter shall…

Sec. 43.28. CERTAIN SEXUALLY ORIENTED PERFORMANCES PROHIBITED. (a) In this section: (1) "Sexual conduct" means: (A) the exhibition or representation, actual or simulated, of sexual acts, including vaginal sex, anal sex, and masturbation; (B) the exhibition or representation, actu…