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SECTION 2320

Houses of prostitution; equipment; nuisance

Public Health (PBH) CHAPTER 45, ARTICLE 23, TITLE 2

§ 2320. Houses of prostitution; equipment; nuisance. 1. Whoever shall
erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own, or lease any building,
erection, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or
prostitution is guilty of maintaining a nuisance.

2. The building, erection, or place, or the ground itself, in or upon
which any lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is conducted,
permitted, or carried on, continued, or exists, and the furniture,
fixtures, musical instruments, and movable property used in conducting
or maintaining such nuisance, are hereby declared to be a nuisance and
shall be enjoined and abated as hereafter provided.