Regulations of Chongqing Municipality on Prohibiting Prostitution and Whoring

Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Decision of NPC Standing Committee on Prohibiting Prostitution and Whoring, and the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Penalties for Public Security. In order to prohibit prostitution, purify social atmosphere and maintain social order. Article 2 Prostitution and whoring as mentioned in these Regulations refer to improper sexual relations between men and women by accepting property. Article 3 The prohibition of prostitution and whoring shall adhere to the principle of comprehensive management and implement the principle of combining specialized institutions with the mass line and combining punishment with education. Article 4 The public security organ is the competent department for banning prostitution and whoring.

People's procuratorates, people's courts and judicial administrative organs shall perform their respective duties in banning prostitution. Health, industry and commerce, tourism, culture, education, commerce, transportation, supervision, finance, municipal management, housing management and other departments should carry out their duties and actively cooperate with public security organs to do a good job in repression.

State organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions, villagers' committees and residents' committees should do a good job in the publicity and education of socialist morality and legal system, so that the broad masses can enhance their moral and legal concepts and consciously resist illegal activities of prostitution and whoring. Article 5 Prostitution, whoring, or luring, introducing or sheltering others for prostitution, if the circumstances are relatively minor, shall be detained for not more than 15 days, given a warning, ordered to repent and may be fined not more than 5,000 yuan by the public security organ according to the provisions of Article 30 of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Penalties for Public Security.

Women who are forced or abducted into prostitution and prostitutes under the age of 14 can go unpunished, but they should be criticized and educated, and their families should be informed to take them back or repatriate them. Sixth hotels, catering services, cultural and entertainment industries, taxi industry and other units use their own conditions to lure, shelter, introduce others to prostitution. If the circumstances are relatively minor, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of these Regulations.

The person in charge of the unit mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be given a heavier punishment if he commits the act mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Article 7. Prostitutes are not given reeducation through labor except administrative punishment according to law. According to the State Council's Measures for the Education of Prostitutes and Whores, public security organs at the county level may decide to accept education. Article 8. Prostitution and whoring, or luring, sheltering or introducing others to prostitution and whoring, are not enough to be investigated for criminal responsibility after education and correction by the public security organs, and the public security organs shall give them reeducation through labor and impose a fine of not more than 5,000 yuan. Article 9 Whoever knowingly organizes, forces, shelters or introduces others to engage in prostitution, which constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). Article 10 Compulsory venereal disease examination shall be conducted for the arrested prostitutes. Compulsory treatment for people with sexually transmitted diseases. Health, public security and judicial administrative departments at all levels shall, in accordance with the division of responsibilities and close cooperation, do a good job in compulsory inspection and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State Council's "Measures for the Education of Prostitution and Whoring". Eleventh prostitutes, prostitutes sexually transmitted diseases examination and treatment costs and living expenses during education. Twelfth hotels, catering services, culture and entertainment, taxi industry and other units and owners. The prostitution and whoring activities of the unit shall be stopped in time and reported to the public security organ. Those who leave it unchecked and fail to take effective measures to stop it will be fined 1 10,000 yuan but not more than110,000 yuan by the public security organ according to the Decision of NPC Standing Committee on Prohibiting Prostitution and Whoring, and may be ordered to make rectification within a time limit and suspend business for rectification. If it is still not corrected after rectification, the public security organ shall revoke the public security management license and the administrative department for industry and commerce shall revoke its business license. The directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions by their units or higher competent departments, and shall be given administrative sanctions by public security organs. Article 13 If a person who commits any of the illegal and criminal acts listed in these Regulations voluntarily explains the problem to the relevant state organ or unit to which he belongs, or confesses his own illegal and criminal facts, exposes others' illegal and criminal acts, and has made other meritorious deeds, he may be given a lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment according to law. Article 14 The illegal income from prostitution or organizing, forcing, luring, sheltering or introducing others to prostitution shall be confiscated. Fifteenth fines and confiscation of illegal income, should be issued in accordance with the provisions of the Chongqing Municipal Finance Department unified confiscation receipt.

All incomes from fines and confiscations shall be turned over to the treasury, and no unit or individual may intercept, misappropriate or divide them among themselves. Sixteenth public security personnel shall not be less than two when performing official duties to ban prostitution and whoring, and shall show their certificates to non-competent personnel or relevant personnel. Seventeenth public security organs shall, in addition to handling prostitutes seized according to law, timely inform their units, sub-district offices or township (town) people's governments of the relevant information. Eighteenth national staff and other employees in violation of these regulations, in addition to punishment in accordance with these regulations, their units or departments should be given administrative sanctions. Article 19 If a party refuses to accept the administrative punishment or administrative compulsory measures made by the public security organ in accordance with these Regulations, he may apply to the public security organ at the next higher level for reconsideration within 15 days from the date of receiving the notice, or he may directly bring an administrative lawsuit to the people's court. Where laws and administrative regulations provide otherwise, such provisions shall prevail.