2002 Minnesota Statutes

     609.321 Prostitution; definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.  For the purposes of sections 609.321 to 
 609.324, the following terms have the meanings given.  

    Subd. 2.  "Business of prostitution" means any arrangement 
 between or organization of two or more persons, acting other 
 than as prostitutes or patrons, who commit acts punishable under 
 sections 609.321 to 609.324.  

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 Repealed, 1998 c 367 art 2 s 33 

    Subd. 4.  "Patron" means an individual who hires or offers 
 or agrees to hire another individual to engage in sexual 
 penetration or sexual contact.  

    Subd. 5.  "Place of prostitution" means a house or other 
 place where prostitution is practiced.  

    Subd. 6. Repealed, 1998 c 367 art 2 s 33 

    Subd. 7.  "Promotes the prostitution of an individual" 
 means any of the following wherein the person knowingly:  

    (1) solicits or procures patrons for a prostitute; or 

    (2) provides, leases or otherwise permits premises or 
 facilities owned or controlled by the person to aid the 
 prostitution of an individual; or 

    (3) owns, manages, supervises, controls, keeps or operates, 
 either alone or with others, a place of prostitution to aid the 
 prostitution of an individual; or 

    (4) owns, manages, supervises, controls, operates, 
 institutes, aids or facilitates, either alone or with others, a 
 business of prostitution to aid the prostitution of an 
 individual; or 

    (5) admits a patron to a place of prostitution to aid the 
 prostitution of an individual; or 

    (6) transports an individual from one point within this 
 state to another point either within or without this state, or 
 brings an individual into this state to aid the prostitution of 
 the individual.  

    Subd. 8.  "Prostitute" means an individual who engages in 
 prostitution.  

    Subd. 9.  "Prostitution" means engaging or offering or 
 agreeing to engage for hire in sexual penetration or sexual 
 contact.  

    Subd. 10.  "Sexual contact" means any of the following 
 acts, if the acts can reasonably be construed as being for the 
 purpose of satisfying the actor's sexual impulses:  

    (i) the intentional touching by an individual of a 
 prostitute's intimate parts; or 

    (ii) the intentional touching by a prostitute of another 
 individual's intimate parts.  

    Subd. 11.  "Sexual penetration" means any of the following 
 acts, if for the purpose of satisfying sexual impulses:  sexual 
 intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse, or any 
 intrusion however slight into the genital or anal openings of an 
 individual's body by any part of another individual's body or 
 any object used for the purpose of satisfying sexual impulses.  
 Emission of semen is not necessary.  

    Subd. 12.  A "public place" means a public street or 
 sidewalk, a pedestrian skyway system as defined in section 
 469.125, subdivision 4, a hotel, motel, or other place of public 
 accommodation, or a place licensed to sell intoxicating liquor, 
 wine, nonintoxicating malt beverages, or food.  

    HIST: 1979 c 255 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 291 s 242