2007 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    Subd. 2.[Repealed, 1998 c 367 art 2 s 33]
    Subd. 3.[Repealed, 1998 c 367 art 2 s 33]
History: 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