2004 Minnesota Statutes

     609.322 Solicitation, inducement, and promotion of 
  prostitution. 

    Subdivision 1.    Individuals under age 18.  Whoever, 
 while acting other than as a prostitute or patron, intentionally 
 does any of the following may be sentenced to imprisonment for 
 not more than 20 years or to payment of a fine of not more than 
 $40,000, or both: 

    (1) solicits or induces an individual under the age of 18 
 years to practice prostitution; 

    (2) promotes the prostitution of an individual under the 
 age of 18 years; or 

    (3) receives profit, knowing or having reason to know that 
 it is derived from the prostitution, or the promotion of the 
 prostitution, of an individual under the age of 18 years. 

    Subd. 1a.    Other offenses.  Whoever, while acting 
 other than as a prostitute or patron, intentionally does any of 
 the following may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 
 15 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $30,000, or 
 both: 

    (1) solicits or induces an individual to practice 
 prostitution; or 

    (2) promotes the prostitution of an individual; or 

    (3) receives profit, knowing or having reason to know that 
 it is derived from the prostitution, or the promotion of the 
 prostitution, of an individual. 

    Subd. 1b.    Exceptions.  Subdivisions 1, clause (3), 
 and 1a, clause (3), do not apply to: 

    (1) a minor who is dependent on an individual acting as a 
 prostitute and who may have benefited from or been supported by 
 the individual's earnings derived from prostitution; or 

    (2) a parent over the age of 55 who is dependent on an 
 individual acting as a prostitute, who may have benefited from 
 or been supported by the individual's earnings derived from 
 prostitution, and who did not know that the earnings were 
 derived from prostitution; or 

    (3) the sale of goods or services to a prostitute in the 
 ordinary course of a lawful business. 

    Subd. 1c.    Aggregation of cases.  Acts by the 
 defendant in violation of any one or more of the provisions in 
 this section within any six-month period may be aggregated and 
 the defendant charged accordingly in applying the provisions of 
 this section; provided that when two or more offenses are 
 committed by the same person in two or more counties, the 
 accused may be prosecuted in any county in which one of the 
 offenses was committed for all of the offenses aggregated under 
 this paragraph.  

    Subd. 2. Repealed, 1998 c 367 art 2 s 33 

    Subd. 3. Repealed, 1998 c 367 art 2 s 33 

    HIST: 1979 c 255 s 2; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1986 c 448 s 2; 
 1992 c 571 art 4 s 9; 1998 c 367 art 2 s 12-14; 2000 c 431 s 2; 
 1Sp2003 c 2 art 10 s 1