Chapter 167 — Offenses Against General Welfare and Animals
ORS 167.012 Promoting prostitution
A person commits the crime of promoting prostitution if, with intent to promote prostitution, the person knowingly:
Owns, controls, manages, supervises or otherwise maintains a place of prostitution or a prostitution enterprise;
Induces or causes a person to engage in prostitution or to remain in a place of prostitution;
Receives or agrees to receive money, goods, property, services or something else of value, other than as a prostitute being compensated for personally rendered prostitution services, pursuant to an agreement or understanding that the money, goods, property, services or something else of value is derived from a prostitution activity; or
Engages in any conduct that institutes, aids or facilitates an act or enterprise of prostitution.
Promoting prostitution is a Class C felony.
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