{
 "citation": "14:282",
 "heading": "Operation of places of prostitution prohibited; penalty",
 "doc_id": "78390",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78390",
 "classification": "F",
 "enacted_year": "2020",
 "last_amended_year": "2025",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "B(1)",
   "text": "B.(1) Whoever violates or aids, abets, or participates in the violation of this Section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.",
   "los_min": "30D",
   "los_max": "6M",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  },
  {
   "subsection": "B(2)",
   "text": "(2) Whoever violates any provision of this Section for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution of persons under the age of eighteen shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.",
   "los_min": "15Y",
   "los_max": "50Y",
   "hard_labor": "AT",
   "benefits": "W/O BENEFITS (probation, parole, or suspension of sentence)",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  },
  {
   "subsection": "B(3)",
   "text": "(3) Whoever violates any provision of this Section for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution of persons under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not more than seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of",
   "los_min": "25Y",
   "los_max": "50Y",
   "hard_labor": "AT",
   "benefits": "W/O BENEFITS (probation, parole, or suspension of sentence)",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:282\n\n\u00a7282. Operation of places of prostitution prohibited; penalty\n\nA. No person shall maintain, operate, or knowingly own any place or any conveyance\nused for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, or shall rent or let any place\nor conveyance to any person with knowledge of or good reason to believe that the lessee\nintends to use the place or conveyance for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or\nprostitution, or reside in, enter, or remain in any place for the purpose of lewdness,\nassignation, or prostitution.\n\nB.(1) Whoever violates or aids, abets, or participates in the violation of this Section\nshall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,\nimprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.\n\n(2) Whoever violates any provision of this Section for the purpose of lewdness,\nassignation, or prostitution of persons under the age of eighteen shall be fined not more than\nfifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than\nfifty years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole,\nor suspension of sentence.\n\n(3) Whoever violates any provision of this Section for the purpose of lewdness,\nassignation, or prostitution of persons under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not more\nthan seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five\nyears nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten years being served without benefit\nof probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.\n\n(4) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 352, \u00a72.\n\nAmended by Acts 1980, No. 708, \u00a71; Acts 2012, No. 446, \u00a71; Acts 2013, No. 83, \u00a71;\nActs 2014, No. 564, \u00a71; Acts 2017, No. 180, \u00a71, eff. June 12, 2017; Acts 2020, No. 352, \u00a72;\nActs 2025, No. 230, \u00a71."
}