Montana Code 45-5-702. Sex trafficking
45-5-702. Sex trafficking. (1) A person commits the offense of sex trafficking if the person purposely or knowingly:
Terms Used In Montana Code 45-5-702
- Knowingly: means only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring the act or omission within the provisions of this code. See Montana Code 1-1-204
- Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- Prostitution: has the meaning provided in 45-5-601. See Montana Code 45-5-701
- Sex: means the organization of the body parts and gametes for reproduction in human beings and other organisms. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(a)owns, controls, manages, supervises, resides in, or otherwise keeps, alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution or prostitution business;
(b)procures an individual for a house of prostitution or prostitution business or procures a place in a house of prostitution or prostitution business for an individual;
(c)encourages, induces, or otherwise purposely causes another person to become or remain a prostitute;
(d)solicits clients for another person who is a prostitute;
(e)procures a prostitute for a patron;
(f)transports an individual into or within this state with the purpose to promote that individual’s engaging in prostitution or procures or pays for transportation with 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 that use by ejecting the tenant, notifying law enforcement authorities, or using other legally available means;
(h)recruits, transports, transfers, harbors, receives, provides, obtains, isolates, maintains, or entices another person intending or knowing that the person will be subjected to prostitution; or
(i)benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from facilitating any conduct described in subsections (1)(a) through (1)(h).
(2)A person convicted of the offense of sex trafficking shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a term of not less than 2 years or more than 20 years, fined in the amount of $400,000, or both.