No person shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution or by promises, threats, violence or any device or scheme cause, induce, persuade or encourage a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution, or procure a place as an inmate of a house of prostitution for a female person. No person shall by promises, threats, violence or any device or scheme cause, induce, persuade or encourage an inmate of a house of prostitution to remain therein as such inmate. No person shall by fraud, artifice, duress of person or goods or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority procure any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill fame, to enter any place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed within the City, to come into the City for the purpose of prostitution, procure any female person who has not previously practiced prostitution in the City to come into the City or leave the City for the purpose of prostitution or receive, give or agree to receive or give, money or anything of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill fame within the City, for the purpose of prostitution.
Whoever violates this section shall, for a first offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(WVaC 61-8-7)