(1) A person is guilty of promoting human trafficking when the person intentionally:
- (a) Benefits financially or receives anything of value from knowing participation in human trafficking; or
- (b) Recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, obtains, advertises, maintains, patronizes, or solicits by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, advertise, maintain, patronize, or solicit by any means, another person, knowing that the person will be subject to human trafficking.
- (2) Promoting human trafficking is a Class C felony unless a victim of the trafficking is under eighteen (18), in which case it is a Class B felony.
Effective: July 15, 2024
History: Amended 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 61, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2024; and ch. 106, sec. 8, effective July 15, 2024. -- Created 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 19, sec. 6, effective June 26, 2007. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2024). This statute was amended by 2024 Ky. Acts chs. 61 and 106, which do not appear to be in conflict and have been codified together.