{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-266","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 266","heading":"","body":"A person who inveigles or entices a person under 18 years of age into a house of ill fame, or of assignation, or elsewhere, for the purpose of prostitution, or to have illicit carnal connection with another person, and a person who aids or assists in that inveiglement or enticement, and a person who, by any false pretenses, false representation, or other fraudulent means, procures a person to have illicit carnal connection with another person, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 9. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY AND GOOD MORALS [261. - 368.7.]","CHAPTER 1. Rape, Abduction, Carnal Abuse of Children, and Seduction [261. - 269.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"87880361a6a0e5e35da52b5c8a52975442d10ab72ee463957598e276f86e6283","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-265","next":"us-ca/pen-266a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}