§712-1203 - Promoting prostitution in the second degree. - Hawaii Statutes

     §712-1203  Promoting prostitution in the second degree.  (1)  A person commits the offense of promoting prostitution in the second degree if the person knowingly advances or profits from prostitution by managing, supervising, controlling, or owning, either alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involving prostitution activity by two or more prostituted persons.

     (2)  Promoting prostitution in the second degree is a class C felony. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; am L 1993, c 130, §3; am L 2008, c 147, §9]

 

Case Notes

 

  Statements made by women constituted verbal acts and were admissible against defendant charged under subsection (1)(a).  59 H. 401, 581 P.2d 1171.

  Section 701-109(1)(d) prohibits conviction under both this section and §842-2(2), as both this section and §842-2(2) seek to redress the same conduct--the control of an enterprise involved in criminal activity.  In such case, this section, the specific statute, governs over the general statute, §842-2(2).  88 H. 19, 960 P.2d 1227.

  Cited:  58 H. 299, 568 P.2d 504.