A person commits the offense of promoting prostitution if he or she purposely or knowingly commits any of the following acts:
(A) Owns, controls, manages, supervises, resides in or otherwise keeps, alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business;
(B) Procures an inmate for a house of prostitution, or a place in a house of prostitution for one who would be an inmate;
(C) Encourages, induces or otherwise purposely causes another to become or remain a prostitute;
(D) Solicits a person to patronize a prostitute;
(E) Procures a prostitute for a patron;
(F) Transports a person into or within this state with the purpose to promote that person’s engaging in prostitution, or procures or pays for transportation for that purpose;
(G) Leases or otherwise permits a place controlled by the offender, alone or in association with others, to be regularly used for prostitution or for the procurement of prostitution, or fails to make reasonable effort to abate such use by ejecting the tenant, notifying law enforcement authorities or using other legally available means; or
(H) Lives, in whole or in part, upon the earnings of a person engaging in prostitution unless the person is the prostitute’s minor child or other legal dependent incapable of self-support.
(Prior Code, § 9.04.060) (Ord. 88-38, passed - -1988) Penalty, see § 131.99