§ 14:104 — Keeping a disorderly place

Louisiana § 14:104

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 14: Criminal Law

Text

§104. Keeping a disorderly place
A. Keeping a disorderly place is the intentional maintaining of a place to be used
habitually for any illegal purpose.
B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of keeping a disorderly place shall be fined not
more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
(2) Whoever commits the crime of keeping a disorderly place for the purpose of
prostitution of persons under the age of eighteen years shall be fined not more than fifty
thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty
years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or
suspension of sentence.
(3) Whoever commits the crime of keeping a disorderly place for the purpose of
prostitution of persons under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not more than
seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years
nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten years being served without benefit of
probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.
(4) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 352, §2.

Legislative History

Amended by Acts 1970, No. 460, §1; Acts 1979, No. 224, §1, eff. July 8, 1979; Acts 2012, No. 446, §1; Acts 2013, No. 83, §1; Acts 2014, No. 564, §1; Acts 2017, No. 180, §1, eff. June 12, 2017; Acts 2020, No. 352, §2; Acts 2025, No. 230, §1.