HB-5231, As Passed House, February 12, 2014

SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 5231

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

"The Michigan penal code,"

by amending sections 452, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, and 460 (MCL

750.452, 750.455, 750.456, 750.457, 750.458, 750.459, and 750.460).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 452. Keeping, etc., a house of ill-fame—Any A person who

shall keep, maintain keeps, maintains, or operate, operates, or aid

aids and abet abets in keeping, maintaining, or operating, a house

of ill-fame, bawdy house, or any house or place resorted to for the

purpose of prostitution or lewdness shall be is guilty of a felony

, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than

5 years or by a fine of not more than 2,500 dollars.$5,000.00, or

both.

     Sec. 455. Pandering—Any A person who shall procure a female

does any of the following is guilty of a felony punishable by

imprisonment for not more than 20 years:

     (a) Procures an inmate for a house of prostitution. ; or who

shall induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice a female

     (b) Induces, persuades, encourages, inveigles, or entices a

person to become a prostitute. ; or who by promises, threats,

violence

     (c) By promise, threat, or violence, or by any device or

scheme, shall cause, induce, persuade, encourage, take, place,

harbor, inveigle or entice a female causes, induces, persuades,

encourages, takes, places, harbors, inveigles, or entices a person

to become an inmate of a house of prostitution or assignation place

, or any place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged, or

allowed. ; or any person who shall, by promises, threats,

     (d) By any promise or threat, or by violence or by any device

or scheme, cause, induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice

causes, induces, persuades, encourages, inveigles, or entices an

inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain

therein there as such an inmate. ; or any person who by promises,

threats,

     (e) By any promise or threat, or by violence, by any device or

scheme, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or

by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, or having

legal charge, shall take, place, harbor, inveigle, entice,

persuade, encourage takes, places, harbors, inveigles, entices,

persuades, encourages, or procure procures any female person to

enter any place within this state in which prostitution is

practiced, encouraged or allowed, for the purpose of engage in

prostitution. ; or who shall inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage,

or procure

     (f) Inveigles, entices, persuades, encourages, or procures any

female person to come into this state or to leave this state for

the purpose of prostitution. ; or who upon

     (g) Upon the pretense of marriage, takes or detains a female

person for the purpose of sexual intercourse. ; or who shall

receive or give or agree

     (h) Receives or gives, or agrees to receive or give, any money

or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female

person to become a prostitute or to come into this state or leave

this state for the purpose of prostitution. , shall be guilty of a

felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more

than 20 years.

     Sec. 456. Placing wife by fraud, etc., in house of

prostitution—Any Any person who by force, fraud, intimidation, or

threat places or leaves, or procures any other person to place or

leave, his wife or her spouse in a house of prostitution or to lead

a life of prostitution, shall be is guilty of a felony , punishable

by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 20 years.

     Sec. 457. (1) Accepting money, etc., from earnings of

prostitute—Any Any person who shall knowingly accept, receive, levy

accepts, receives, levies, or appropriate appropriates any money or

valuable thing without consideration from the proceeds of the

earnings of any woman person engaged in prostitution, or any

person, knowing a female person to be a prostitute, shall live who

lives or derive derives support or maintenance, in whole or in

part, from the earnings or proceeds of the prostitution of said a

prostitute, or from moneys money loaned or advanced to or charged

against her a prostitute by any keeper or manager or inmate of a

house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed,

shall be is guilty of a felony , punishable by imprisonment in the

state prison for not more than 20 years. And such

     (2) The acceptance, receipt, levy, or appropriation of such

money or valuable any thing , shall, upon any proceeding or trial

for violation of this section, be of value described in subsection

(1) is presumptive evidence of lack of consideration.

     Sec. 458. Detaining female in house of prostitution for debt

contracted while there—Any Any person who attempts to detain any

female person in a disorderly house or house of prostitution

because of any debt or debts she the person has contracted, or is

said to have contracted while living in said that house, shall be

is guilty of a felony , punishable by imprisonment in the state

prison for not less than 2 nor years or more than 20 years.

     Sec. 459. (1) Transporting female for prostitution—Any A

person who shall knowingly transport transports or cause causes to

be transported, or aid aids or assist assists in obtaining

transportation for, by any means of conveyance, into, through or

across this state, any female person for the purpose of

prostitution or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice or

compel such female that person to become a prostitute shall be is

guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison

for not more than 20 years. ; any

     (2) A person who may commit the crime in violates this section

mentioned may be prosecuted, indicted, tried, and convicted in any

county or city in or through which he shall so transport or attempt

to transport any female person as aforesaid.in violation of this

section.

     Sec. 460. (1) Acts committed outside state—It shall It is not

be a defense to a prosecution for any of the acts prohibited in the

next 5 preceding sections a violation of this chapter that any part

of such act or acts shall have been that violation was committed

outside this state. , and the offense shall in such case be deemed

and alleged to have been committed and the offender

     (2) A person who violates this chapter may be tried and

punished in any county in which the prostitution was intended to be

practiced, or in which the offense was consummated, or in which any

overt act in furtherance of the offense shall have been was

committed.