{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6420","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 21-6420","heading":"Promoting the sale of sexual relations.","body":"(a) Promoting the sale of sexual relations is knowingly:\n(1) Establishing, owning, maintaining or managing any property, whether real or personal, where sexual relations are being sold or offered for sale by a person who is 18 years of age or older, or participating in the establishment, ownership, maintenance or management thereof;\n(2) permitting any property, whether real or personal, partially or wholly owned or controlled by the defendant to be used as a place where sexual relations are being sold or offered for sale by a person who is 18 years of age or older;\n(3) procuring a person selling sexual relations who is 18 years of age or older for a place where sexual relations are being sold or offered for sale;\n(4) inducing another who is 18 years of age or older to become a person who sells sexual relations;\n(5) soliciting a patron for a person 18 years of age or older who is selling sexual relations or for a place where sexual relations are being sold or offered for sale;\n(6) procuring a person 18 years of age or older who is selling sexual relations for a patron;\n(7) procuring transportation for, paying for the transportation of, or transporting a person 18 years of age or older within this state with the intention of assisting or promoting that person's engaging in the sale of sexual relations; or\n(8) being employed to perform any act which is prohibited by this section.\n(b) (1) Promoting the sale of sexual relations is a:\n(A) Severity level 9, person felony, except as provided in subsection (b)(1)(B); and\n(B) severity level 7, person felony when committed by a person who has, prior to the commission of the crime, been convicted of a violation of this section, or any prior version of this section.\n(2) In addition to any other sentence imposed, a person convicted under subsection (b)(1)(A) shall be fined not less than $2,500 nor more than $5,000. In addition to any other sentence imposed, a person convicted under subsection (b)(1)(B) shall be fined not less than $5,000. All fines collected pursuant to this section shall be remitted to the human trafficking victim assistance fund created by K.S.A. 75-758, and amendments thereto.","path":["Chapter 21.—CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS","Article 64.—CRIMES AGAINST THE PUBLIC MORALS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch21/021_064_0020.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:13Z","sha256":"231668b11f080140fe69bb6f6ee8e15b3637f879bf80f88c33f9ec949c58a33f","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6419","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6421"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}