§ 14-84. Leasing house of prostitution.

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Every person who shall knowingly lease or rent to another any house or building or any part thereof for either of the unlawful uses described in section 563.090, RSMo, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of an offense; but if it shall appear that the person renting or leasing such house or building, or any part thereof, made to and with such lessee a written lease of such premises, to be used for any lawful purposes therein specified, and that whenever such lease comprised an entire house or building, that the said lease has been duly acknowledged by the respective parties, and within ten days of such acknowledgement filed for record in the office of recorder of deeds, for the city or county wherein such premises were situate, no conviction shall be had as against such person leasing or renting such premises, except upon the testimony of two credible witnesses.

(Code 1958, § 49.39)

State law reference

Prostitution, RSMo Ch. 567.

                    
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