TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 56

COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY

18-5614.   soliciting commercial sexual activity. (1) A person is guilty of soliciting commercial sexual activity when he or she:

(a)  Pays, offers, or agrees to pay another person a fee for the purpose of engaging in sexual contact; or

(b)  Offers a third person to engage in, or agrees to provide a third person to engage in, sexual contact in return for a fee.

(2)  Soliciting commercial sexual activity shall be a misdemeanor, provided that a second or subsequent conviction therefor shall be a felony. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor violation of this section shall be sentenced to a minimum period of confinement of five (5) days in jail and may be sentenced to up to one (1) year in jail or fined up to two thousand dollars ($2,000), or both. The minimum period of confinement shall be served in a county jail, and a court shall not have the power to suspend, withhold, retain jurisdiction over, or commute the minimum period of confinement imposed pursuant to this section.

History:

[18-5614, added 1977, ch. 175, sec. 3, p. 451; am. 1994, ch. 130, sec. 13, p. 295; am. 2024, ch. 147, sec. 17, p. 563.]