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attorney at law or not, it has, owns, conducts or maintains a law office, or an
office or facilities for the practice of law, or for furnishing legal advice,
services or counsel. It shall be unlawful further, for any corporation or
voluntary association to solicit itself or by, or through its officers, agents
or employees, employment in connection with the rendition of legal ad-
vice, services or counsel of any kind whatsoever, or to solicit any claim or
demand for the purpose of bringing an action thereon, or representing
as attorney at law, or for furnishing legal advice, services or counsel, to a
person sued, or about to be sued in any action or proceeding, or against
whom an action or proceeding has been, or is about to be brought, or who
may be affected by any action or proceeding which has been or may be
instituted in any court or before any judicial body, or for the purpose of
representing any person in the pursuit of any civil remedy. Any corpora-
tion or voluntary association violating the provisions of this section shall be
liable to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, and every officer,
trustee, director, agent or employee of such corporation or voluntary asso-
ciation, who directly or indirectly engages in any of the acts herein pro-
hibited, or assists such corporation or voluntary association to do such pro-
hibited acts, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall
be fined not more than five hundred dollars. The fact that any such officer,
trustee, director, agent or employee shall be a duly and regularly admitted
attorney at law, shall not be held to permit or allow any such corporation
or voluntary association to do the acts prohibited herein. Nor shall such
facts be a defense upon a trial of any of the persons mentioned herein for a
violation of the provisions of this section. This section shall not apply to
the business of examining and insuring titles to real property, or the col-
lection or adjustment of mercantile claims in which a corporation or volun-
tary association may be lawfully engaged, nor to any insurance corporation
or association defending the insured under a policy of insurance.

Bawdy Houses and Houses of Ill-Fame.

An; Code, 1924, sec. 20. 1912, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 18. 1892, ch. 522, sec. 16A.
1920, ch. 737, sec. 19.

16. It shall be unlawful:

(a) To keep, set up, maintain or operate any place, structure, building
or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation;

(b) To occupy any place, structure, building or conveyance for the pur-
pose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or for any person to permit
any place, structure, building or conveyance owned by him or under his
control to be used for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation
with knowledge or reasonable cause to know that the same is, or is to be,
used for such purpose;

(c) To receive, or to offer or agree to receive any person into any place,
structure, building or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness
or assignation, or to knowingly permit any person to remain there for such
purpose;

(d) To direct, take or transport, or to offer or agree to take or transport,
any person to any place, structure or building or to any other person with
knowledge or reasonable cause to know that the purpose of such directing,
taking or transporting is prostitution, lewdness or assignation;

(e) To procure or to solicit or to offer to procure or solicit for the
purpose, of prostitution, lewdness or assignation;