76-5-308. Human trafficking.
(1) An actor commits human trafficking for forced labor or forced sexual exploitation if
the actor recruits, harbors, transports, or obtains a person through the use of force, fraud, or
coercion by means of:
(a) threatening serious harm to, or physical restraint against, that person or a third person;
(b) destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing any passport,
immigration document, or other government identification document;
(c) abusing or threatening abuse of the law or legal process against the person or a third
person;
(d) using a condition of a person being a debtor due to a pledge of the debtor's personal
services or the personal services of a person under the control of the debtor as a security for debt
where the reasonable value of the services is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the
length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined; or
(e) using a condition of servitude by means of any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to
cause a person to believe that if the person did not enter into or continue in a condition of
servitude, that person or a third person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint, or would
be threatened with abuse of legal process.
(2) (a) Human trafficking for forced labor includes forced labor in industrial facilities,
sweatshops, households, agricultural enterprises, and any other workplace.
(b) Human trafficking for forced sexual exploitation includes all forms of forced
commercial sexual activity, including forced sexually explicit performance, forced prostitution,
forced participation in the production of pornography, forced performance in strip clubs, and
forced exotic dancing or display.
Enacted by Chapter 343, 2008 General Session
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