Any proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or person having the control of any house of prostitution, or any house or room resorted to for the purpose of prostitution, who shall admit or keep any minor of either sex therein; or any parent or guardian of any such minor, who shall admit or keep such minor, or sanction, or connive at the admission or keeping thereof, into, or in any such house, or room, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Penal Code § 309
Of Crimes Against Religion and Conscience, and Other Offenses Against Good Morals
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 41 Cal. 4th 1257 - In Re Tobacco Cases II (2007)
Most recently applied in 41 Cal. 4th 1257 - In Re Tobacco Cases II (August 2007)
Added by Code Amendments 1880, Ch. 58.
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