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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Sec. 455.A person who 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.
(b) Induces, persuades, encourages, inveigles, or entices a person to become a prostitute.
(c) By promise, threat, or violence, or by any device or scheme, 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.
(d) By any promise or threat, or by violence or any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades, encourages, inveigles, or entices an inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain there as an inmate.
(e) By any promise or threat, or by violence, any device or scheme, fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, or having legal charge, takes, places, harbors, inveigles, entices, persuades, encourages, or procures any person to engage in prostitution.
(f) Inveigles, entices, persuades, encourages, or procures any person to come into this state or to leave this state for the purpose of prostitution.
(g) Upon the pretense of marriage, takes or detains a person for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
(h) Receives or gives, or agrees to receive or give, any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any person to become a prostitute or to come into this state or leave this state for the purpose of prostitution.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Compiled Laws, Chapter 750. Michigan Penal Code § 750.455 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/mi/chapter-750-michigan-penal-code/mi-comp-laws-750-455/
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