Every person who keeps any disorderly house, or any house for the purpose of assignation or prostitution, or any house of public resort, by which the peace, comfort, or decency of the immediate neighborhood is habitually disturbed, or who keeps any inn in a disorderly manner; and every person who lets any apartment or tenement, knowing that it is to be used for the purpose of assignation or prostitution, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Penal Code § 316
Indecent Exposure, Obscene Exhibitions, and Bawdy and Other Disorderly Houses
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case County of Los Angeles v. Civil Service Commission (1995)
Most recently applied in 129 Cal. App. 4th 1203 - People v. Pacific Landmark (May 2005)
Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1360, Sec. 108.
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