201.310 - Pandering: Placing spouse in brothel; penalties. - Nevada Statutes

201.310  Pandering: Placing spouse in brothel; penalties.

      1.  A person who by force, fraud, intimidation or threats, places, or procures any other person to place, his or her spouse in a house of prostitution or compels his or her spouse to lead a life of prostitution is guilty of pandering and shall be punished:

      (a) Where physical force or the immediate threat of physical force is used upon the spouse, for a category C felony as provided in NRS 193.130.

      (b) Where no physical force or immediate threat of physical force is used, for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130.

      2.  Upon the trial of any offense mentioned in this section, either spouse is a competent witness for or against the other spouse, with or without the other’s consent, and may be compelled so to testify.

      [2:233:1913; 1919 RL p. 3380; NCL § 10538]—(NRS A 1967, 478; 1979, 302, 1431; 1995, 1202)