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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 97', '§ 97', '§ 97', '§ 97', '§ 2333', '§ 97', '§ 2334', '§ 97', '§ 2335']

Prostitution Laws of Mississippi - Legal Prostitution - ProCon.org
LEGAL PROSTITUTION Last updated on: 8/27/2012 3:09:04 PM PST
Prostitution Laws of Mississippi
§ 97-29-49. Prostitution
§ 97-29-51. Prostitution; procuring females; accepting money, etc. from prostitute
§ 97-29-53. Prostitution; penalty
TITLE 97. CRIMES CHAPTER 29. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS AND DECENCY § 97-29-49. Prostitution It shall be unlawful to engage in prostitution or to aid or abet prostitution or to procure or solicit for the purposes of prostitution, or to reside in, enter, or remain in any place, structure, or building, or to enter or remain in any vehicle or conveyance for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, or to keep or set up a house of ill-fame, brothel or bawdy house, or to receive any person for purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution into any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure or building, or to permit any person to remain for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution in any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure, or building, or to direct, take, or transport, or to offer or agree to take or transport, or aid or assist in transporting, any person to any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure, or building, or to any other person with knowledge or reasonable cause to know that the purpose of such directing, taking or transporting is prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or to lease or rent or contract to lease or rent any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure, or building, or part thereof, knowing or with good reason to know that it is intended to be used for any of the purposes herein prohibited, or to aid, abet, or participate in the doing of any of the acts herein prohibited. HISTORY: SOURCES: Codes, 1942, § 2333; Laws, 1942, ch. 284. § 97-29-51. Prostitution; procuring females; accepting money, etc. from prostitute It shall further be unlawful to procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution, or to cause, induce, persuade, or encourage by promise, threat, violence, or by scheme or device, a female to become a prostitute or to remain an inmate of a house of prostitution, or to induce, persuade, or encourage a female to come into or leave this state for the purpose of prostitution, or to become an inmate in a house of prostitution, or to receive or give, or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring, or attempting to procure any female to become a prostitute or an inmate in a house of prostitution, or to knowingly accept, receive, levy or appropriate any money or other thing of value without consideration from a prostitute or from the proceeds of any woman engaged in prostitution. HISTORY: SOURCES: Codes, 1942, § 2334; Laws, 1942, ch. 284. § 97-29-53. Prostitution; penalty
Any person, partnership, association or corporation violating any provision of Sections 97-29-49 or 97-29-51 shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($ 200.00) or by confinement in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. HISTORY: SOURCES: Codes, 1942, § 2335; Laws, 1942, ch. 284.
Source: Mississippi State Legislature, "Mississippi Code of 1972 Unannotated," www.billstatus.ls.state.ms.us (accessed Aug. 27, 2012) People who view this page may also like: