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NRS 201.295 through 201.440 make up the pandering, prostitution and disorderly houses provisions within NRS Chapter 201, Crimes Against Public Decency and Good Morals. The section number identifies whether the law concerns the exchange itself, another person’s involvement, the proceeds or the premises.
NRS 201.295 supplies the definitions. An adult is 18 or older and a child is under 18. Prostitution means engaging in sexual conduct with another person for money or something else of value. Sexual conduct includes intercourse, oral-genital contact and certain intimate touching for sexual arousal or gratification.
NRS 201.353 applies to the person providing or soliciting to provide the sexual service. NRS 201.354 applies to the customer and separately addresses solicitation of a child or someone posing as a child in a police investigation. Both sections contain an exception for conduct in a licensed house of prostitution. For court and case information after a citation, see our guide to Las Vegas prostitution and solicitation charges.
NRS 201.300 defines pandering in subsection 1 and sex trafficking in subsection 2. Pandering includes inducing an adult into unlawful prostitution without physical force or an immediate threat of force. Sex trafficking covers specified conduct involving a child, coercion and other acts listed in subsection 2. NRS 201.301 separately covers facilitating sex trafficking.
The statute NRS 201.320 prohibits knowingly receiving or taking proceeds from prostitution without giving anything of value in return. NRS 201.351 sets forth the forfeiture of assets for certain offenses. NRS 201.352 permits additional fines in certain cases involving a child.
NRS 201.360 prohibits certain conduct in connection with placement in a house of prostitution. NRS 201.380 and NRS 201.390 regulate location of, and use of property for, prostitution. NRS 201.395 prohibits advancing prostitution by a person in charge of property who has received the required written law enforcement notice and has failed to take reasonable steps to abate the illegal activity within 30 days.
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NRS 201.420 makes keeping a disorderly house a misdemeanor. This provision can be distinguished from NRS 201.420’s other provision, which prohibits the keeping of an inn in a disorderly manner. NRS 201.430 and 201.440 prohibit unlawful advertising of prostitution and knowing allowance of such advertising at a business location.
The provisions of former NRS 201.356 and 201.358 were repealed by the Nevada legislature in 2021. NRS 201.356 and 201.358 addressed HIV testing of persons arrested for prostitution and subsequent prostitution-related conduct by such persons after they received notice of a positive HIV test.
NRS 201.295–201.440: Pandering, Prostitution and Disorderly Houses