Cal. PEN § 309
This is the official text of Cal. PEN § 309, part of California’s Penal Code — defines crimes and sets criminal procedure in California.
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Any proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or person having the control of any house of prostitution, or any house or room resorted to for the purpose of prostitution, who shall admit or keep any minor of either sex therein; or any parent or guardian of any such minor, who shall admit or keep such minor, or sanction, or connive at the admission or keeping thereof, into, or in any such house, or room, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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