167.012 Promoting prostitution

(1) A person commits the crime of promoting prostitution if, with intent to promote prostitution, the person knowingly:

(a) Owns, controls, manages, supervises or otherwise maintains a place of prostitution or a prostitution enterprise;

(b) Induces or causes a person to engage in prostitution or to remain in a place of prostitution;

(c) Receives or agrees to receive money, goods, property, services or something else of value, other than as a prostitute being compensated for personally rendered prostitution services, pursuant to an agreement or understanding that the money, goods, property, services or something else of value is derived from a prostitution activity; or

(d) Engages in any conduct that institutes, aids or facilitates an act or enterprise of prostitution.

(2) Promoting prostitution is a Class C felony. [1971 c.743 §251; 2016 c.10 §1]

Source: Section 167.012 — Promoting prostitution , https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors167.­html (accessed May 26, 2025).