California · Penal Code

PEN §309: Any proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or person having the control of any house of prostitution, or any house or room resorted to for the purpose of prostitution, who shall admit or keep any min

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person who operates a house of prostitution and admits or keeps a minor there, or a parent/guardian who allows or consents to a minor's presence in such a place, commits a misdemeanor offense.

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Any proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or person having the control of any house of prostitution, or any house or room resorted to for the purpose of prostitution, who shall admit or keep any minor of either sex therein; or any parent or guardian of any such minor, who shall admit or keep such minor, or sanction, or connive at the admission or keeping thereof, into, or in any such house, or room, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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