THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE
Act 328 of 1931
750.455 Certain conduct as felony.
Sec. 455.
A person who does any of the following is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years:
(a) Procures an inmate for a house of prostitution.
(b) Induces, persuades, encourages, inveigles, or entices a person to become a prostitute.
(c) By promise, threat, or violence, or by any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades, encourages, takes, places, harbors, inveigles, or entices a person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution or assignation place or any place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged, or allowed.
(d) By any promise or threat, or by violence or any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades, encourages, inveigles, or entices an inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain there as an inmate.
(e) By any promise or threat, or by violence, any device or scheme, fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, or having legal charge, takes, places, harbors, inveigles, entices, persuades, encourages, or procures any person to engage in prostitution.
(f) Inveigles, entices, persuades, encourages, or procures any person to come into this state or to leave this state for the purpose of prostitution.
(g) Upon the pretense of marriage, takes or detains a person for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
(h) Receives or gives, or agrees to receive or give, any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any person to become a prostitute or to come into this state or leave this state for the purpose of prostitution.
History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.455 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 331, Imd. Eff. Oct. 16, 2014
FormerLaw Notes:
See section 1 of Act 63 of 1911, being CL 1915, § 15494; CL 1929, § 16862; Act 330 of 1925; and Act 37 of 1927.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
31
cases (
7 in the last 5 years), 1950–2025 · leading case:
People v. Norwood, 303 Mich. App. 466 (Mich. Ct. App. 2013).
People v. Norwood, 303 Mich. App. 466 (Mich. Ct. App. 2013).
· cites it 12× “The prosecution appeals by leave granted the circuit court order affirming the district court’s denial of the prosecution’s motion to bind over defendants on a charge of pandering, MCL 750.455. 1 We reverse and remand to the circuit court for reinstatement of the charge against…”
People v. Bosca, 871 N.W.2d 307 (Mich. Ct. App. 2015).
· cites it 3× “335a; procuring or inducing a person to engage in prostitution, MCL 750.455; offenses relating to criminal sexual conduct, MCL 750.”
People v. Morey, 603 N.W.2d 250 (Mich. 1999).
· cites it 5× “Defendant was convicted by a jury of pandering, MCL 750.455; MSA 28.710, and accepting the earnings of a prostitute, MCL 750.”
People v. Morey, 583 N.W.2d 907 (Mich. Ct. App. 1998).
· cites it 7× “Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of pandering, MCL 750.455; MSA 28.710, and accepting the earnings of a prostitute, MCL 750.”
People v. Rocha, 312 N.W.2d 657 (Mich. Ct. App. 1981).
· cites it 4× “354(1), and the pandering of June Overmyer and the pandering of Deborah Miller, MCL 750.455; MSA 28.710. Defendant was convicted by a jury on May 10, 1979, of the pandering of June Overmyer and of conspiracy.”
People v. Pattison, 741 N.W.2d 558 (Mich. Ct. App. 2007).
“520b(l)(b) (victim at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and defendant a member of the same household or related to the victim by blood), and one count of pandering, MCL 750.455. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for trial.”
People v. Mattison, 182 N.W.2d 604 (Mich. Ct. App. 1970).
· cites it 4× “1 MCLA § 750.455 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.710).”
People v. Jeffers, 188 Cal. App. 3d 840 (Cal. Ct. App. 1987).
· cites it 2× “) Twenty years is the maximum in Idaho (Idaho Code, § 18-5602 (1986)), Michigan (Mich. Comp. Laws Ann., § 750.455 (West 1986)) and Montana (Mont.”
People v. Springs, 300 N.W.2d 315 (Mich. Ct. App. 1980).
· cites it 4× “277, and unlawfully, feloniously and wickedly inducing, persuading, inveigling or enticing a female person to become a prostitute (pandering), *121 contrary to MCL 750.455; MSA 28.710. Defendant was acquitted by a jury on the assault charge but was found guilty on the pandering…”
People v. Slipson, 397 N.W.2d 250 (Mich. Ct. App. 1986).
· cites it 4× “After preliminary examination in the 44th District Court, on July 8, 1983, defendant, James Harold Slipson, was bound over to the Oakland Circuit Court on a charge of inducing, persuading, encouraging, inveigling or enticing a female person to become a prostitute, contrary to…”
People v. Masten, 292 N.W.2d 171 (Mich. Ct. App. 1980).
· cites it 2× “MCL 750.455; MSA 28.710, the pandering statute, seeks to punish "[a]ny person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution * * *".”
Doe v. Kelley, 961 F. Supp. 1105 (W.D. Mich. 1997).
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