Chapter 58. OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

§ 58-13. Houses of prostitution.

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No person shall maintain, operate or knowingly own any place or any conveyance used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, or shall rent or let any place or conveyance to any person with knowledge of or good reason to believe that the lessee intends to use the place or conveyance for the purposes of lewdness, assignation or prostitution; or reside in, enter or remain in any place for the purpose of lewdness, assignation or prostitution.

Prostitution is defined as the practice by a person of indiscriminate sexual intercourse with others for compensation and/or the solicitation by one person of another with the intent to engage in indiscriminate sexual intercourse with the latter for compensation

Whoever commits the crime of prostitution shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(Code 1958, § 6-15; Ord. No. 973, 4-8-13)

State law reference

Offenses concerning prostitution, R.S. 14:82 et seq.

                    
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