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Penal Code § 309

CHAPTER 7. Of Crimes Against Religion and Conscience, and Other Offenses Against Good Morals

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 309Official source ↗

Added by Code Amendments 1880, Ch. 58.

Any proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or person having the control of any house of prostitution, or any house or room resorted to for the purpose of prostitution, who shall admit or keep any minor of either sex therein; or any parent or guardian of any such minor, who shall admit or keep such minor, or sanction, or connive at the admission or keeping thereof, into, or in any such house, or room, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.