{
 "citation": "14:83.1",
 "heading": "Inciting prostitution",
 "doc_id": "78680",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78680",
 "classification": "F",
 "enacted_year": "2020",
 "last_amended_year": "2025",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "B(1)",
   "text": "B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of inciting prostitution shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.",
   "los_min": "0",
   "los_max": "1Y",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  },
  {
   "subsection": "B(2)",
   "text": "(2) Whoever commits the crime of inciting prostitution of persons under the age of eighteen years 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 commits the crime of inciting 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 sentence.",
   "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 14:83.1\n\n\u00a783.1. Inciting prostitution\n\nA. Inciting prostitution is the aiding, abetting, or assisting in an enterprise for profit\nin which:\n\n(1) Customers are charged a fee for services which include prostitution, regardless\nof what portion of the fee is actually for the prostitution services,\n\n(2) When the person knows or when a reasonable person in such a position should\nknow that such aiding, abetting, or assisting is for prostitution, and\n\n(3) When the proceeds or profits are to be in any way divided by the prostitute and\nthe person aiding, abetting, or assisting the prostitute.\n\nB.(1) Whoever commits the crime of inciting prostitution shall be fined not more\nthan one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.\n\n(2) Whoever commits the crime of inciting prostitution of persons under the age of\neighteen years shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor\nfor not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least five years being\nserved without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.\n\n(3) Whoever commits the crime of inciting prostitution of persons under the age of\nfourteen years shall be fined not more than seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard\nlabor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten\nyears being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.\n\n(4) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 352, \u00a72.\n\nActs 1984, No. 580, \u00a71; Acts 2012, No. 446, \u00a71; Acts 2013, No. 83, \u00a71; Acts 2014,\nNo. 564, \u00a71; Acts 2017, No. 180, \u00a71, eff. June 12, 2017; Acts 2020, No. 352, \u00a72; Acts 2025,\nNo. 230, \u00a71."
}