HOUSE BILL No. 5231

 

January 22, 2014, Introduced by Reps. Graves, Heise, Haines, Lamonte, Hovey-Wright, Lauwers, LaVoy, Price, Rogers, Slavens, Singh, Darany, Brinks, Haveman, Kowall, Zorn, Cavanagh, O'Brien, Barnett, Driskell, Haugh, Brown, Roberts, Banks, Lyons, Lane, Tlaib, McCready, Irwin and Kivela and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.

 

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

 

"The Michigan penal code,"

 

by amending sections 449a, 451, 452, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, and

 

460 (MCL 750.449a, 750.451, 750.452, 750.455, 750.456, 750.457,

 

750.458, 750.459, and 750.460), section 451 as amended by 2002 PA

 

44.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 449a. Any male person who engages or offers to engage the

 

services of a female another person , not his wife, for the purpose

 

of prostitution, lewdness, or assignation, by the payment in money

 

or any other forms form of consideration, is guilty of a

 

misdemeanor crime punishable as provided in section 451. Any person

 

convicted of violating this section shall be subject to the

 


provisions of Act No. 6 of the Public Acts of the Second Extra

 

Session of 1942, being sections 329.201 to 329.208 of the Compiled

 

Laws of 1948.

 

     Sec. 451. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a

 

person convicted of violating section 448, 449, 449a, 450, or 462

 

is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more

 

than 93 days or a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.

 

     (2) A Except as provided in subsection (5), a person 16 years

 

of age or older who is convicted of violating section 448, 449,

 

449a, 450, or 462 and who has 1 prior conviction is guilty of a

 

misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or

 

a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.

 

     (3) A Except as provided in subsection (5), a person convicted

 

of violating section 448, 449, 449a, 450, or 462 and who has 2 or

 

more prior convictions is guilty of a felony punishable by

 

imprisonment for not more than 2 years , or a fine of not more than

 

$2,000.00, or both.

 

     (4) If the prosecuting attorney intends to seek an enhanced

 

sentence based upon the defendant having 1 or more prior

 

convictions, the prosecuting attorney shall include on the

 

complaint and information a statement listing the prior conviction

 

or convictions. The existence of the defendant's prior conviction

 

or convictions shall be determined by the court, without a jury, at

 

sentencing or at a separate hearing for that purpose before

 

sentencing. The existence of a prior conviction may be established

 

by any evidence relevant for that purpose, including, but not

 

limited to, 1 or more of the following:

 


     (a) A copy of the judgment of conviction.

 

     (b) A transcript of a prior trial, plea-taking, or sentencing.

 

     (c) Information contained in a presentence report.

 

     (d) The defendant's statement.

 

     (5) A person convicted of a violation of section 449a in which

 

the other person was under 18 years of age at the time of the

 

violation is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not

 

more than 4 years or a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or both.

 

     (6) (5) As used in this section, "prior conviction" means a

 

violation of section 448, 449, 449a, 450, or 462 or a violation of

 

a law of another state or of a political subdivision of this state

 

or another state substantially corresponding to section 448, 449,

 

449a, 450, or 462.

 

     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.