Section 750.457 - Earnings of prostitute, accepting. - Michigan Statutes

THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 328 of 1931

750.457 Earnings of prostitute, accepting.

Sec. 457.

Accepting money, etc., from earnings of prostitute—Any person who shall knowingly accept, receive, levy or appropriate any money or valuable thing without consideration from the proceeds of the earnings of any woman engaged in prostitution, or any person, knowing a female to be a prostitute, shall live or derive support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of the prostitution of said prostitute, or from moneys loaned or advanced to or charged against her by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not more than 20 years. And such acceptance, receipt, levy or appropriation of such money or valuable thing, shall, upon any proceeding or trial for violation of this section, be presumptive evidence of lack of consideration.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.457
Former Law: See section 3 of Act 63 of 1911, being CL 1915, § 15496; CL 1929, § 16864; Act 284 of 1934; Act 330 of 1925; Act 37 of 1927; and section 1 of Act 389 of 1919, being CL 1929, § 16869.