Promoting prostitution
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Hamilton-Smith v. Commonwealth (2009)
Most recently applied in Dukes v. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (September 2016)
Effective: June 26, 2007 History: Amended 2007 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person is guilty of promoting prostitution when he knowingly advances or profits from prostitution.
(2) Promoting prostitution is a Class A misdemeanor unless the person managed, supervised, controlled, or owned, either alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involving prostitution activity by two (2) or more prostitutes, in which case it is a Class D felony.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.