THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE
Act 328 of 1931
750.457 Accepting, receiving, levying, or appropriating from earnings of person engaged in prostitution.
Sec. 457.
(1) Any person who knowingly accepts, receives, levies, or appropriates any money or valuable thing without consideration from the proceeds of the earnings of any person engaged in prostitution, or any person, knowing a person to be a prostitute, who lives or derives support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of the prostitution of a prostitute, or from money loaned or advanced to or charged against a prostitute by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years.
(2) The acceptance, receipt, levy, or appropriation of money or any thing of value described in subsection (1) is presumptive evidence of lack of consideration.
History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.457 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 331, Imd. Eff. Oct. 16, 2014
FormerLaw Notes:
See section 3 of Act 63 of 1911, being CL 1915, § 15496; CL 1929, § 16864; Act 284 of 1934; Act 330 of 1925; Act 37 of 1927; and section 1 of Act 389 of 1919, being CL 1929, § 16869.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
31
cases (
5 in the last 5 years), 1965–2026 · leading case:
People v. Martin, 721 N.W.2d 815 (Mich. Ct. App. 2006).
People v. Martin, 721 N.W.2d 815 (Mich. Ct. App. 2006).
· cites it 7× “In April 2004, the prosecution moved the trial court to permit amendment of the information to include one count of keeping a house of prostitution and one count of knowingly accepting, receiving, levying, or appropriating any money or valuable thing without consideration from…”
People v. Morey, 603 N.W.2d 250 (Mich. 1999).
· cites it 2× “710, and accepting the earnings of a prostitute, MCL 750.457; MSA 28.712. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction for accepting the earnings of a prostitute, 1 but reversed the pandering conviction on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence.”
People v. Morey, 583 N.W.2d 907 (Mich. Ct. App. 1998).
· cites it 4× “710, and accepting the earnings of a prostitute, MCL 750.457; MSA 28.712. She was sentenced to three years’ probation, the first four months to be spent in jail.”
People v. Warren, 535 N.W.2d 173 (Mich. 1995).
· cites it 4× “[2] MCL 750.457; MSA 28.712. [3] MCL 750.157a, 750.”
People v. Norwood, 303 Mich. App. 466 (Mich. Ct. App. 2013).
“455, and accepting the earnings of a prostitute, MCL 750.457. Morey, 461 Mich at 326 . On appeal in the Supreme Court, the Court held that there was insufficient evidence to support the pandering conviction.”
People v. Kennedy, 177 N.W.2d 669 (Mich. Ct. App. 1970).
· cites it 4× “MCLA § 750.457 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.712).”
People v. Mattison, 182 N.W.2d 604 (Mich. Ct. App. 1970).
· cites it 2× “2 MCLA § 750.457 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.712).”
People v. Martin, 752 N.W.2d 457 (Mich. 2008).
· cites it 2× “452, and knowingly accepting or receiving the earnings of a prostitute, MCL 750.457. Specifically, the amended information stated: 1) On or about various dates from January 1, 1997 through October 25, 2002, in Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan, co-defendants did commit…”
People v. Willis, 136 N.W.2d 723 (Mich. Ct. App. 1965).
“Defendant Henry Willis appeals from a conviction by jury of the crime of accepting the earnings of a prostitute in violation of CL 1948, § 750.457 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.712). The errors claimed on appeal were at the preliminary examination and not at the trial itself.”
People v. Harrison, 255 N.W.2d 682 (Mich. Ct. App. 1977).
· cites it 4× “, was convicted of receiving the earnings of a prostitute, MCLA 750.457; MSA 28.712, and maintaining, operating, or keeping or aiding and abetting in the maintaining, operating, or keeping of a house of ill-fame or a bawdy house, MCLA 750.”
People v. Blair, 205 N.W.2d 183 (Mich. Ct. App. 1973).
“In view of the foregoing, we hold that in a criminal case where a motion for a new trial is based upon the recanting affidavit of the sole complaining witness and where the trial judge ruling on the motion did not observe or hear the affiant testify at either the original trial…”
Green v. Warren (E.D. Mich. 2020).
· cites it 9× “Background Petitioner was convicted by a jury in the Wayne County Circuit Court of two counts of transporting a person for prostitution, Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.459 , two counts of accepting the earnings of a prostitute, Mich.”
— Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.457(1) — 2 cases
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