Entertainment Venue Management Regulations Penalties for Paid Escorts

If an entertainment venue provides or engages in escorting for profit, the county-level public security department will confiscate illegal gains and illegal property, and order it to suspend business for 3 to 6 months;

If the circumstances are serious, the entertainment business license shall be revoked by the original licensing authority, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than RMB 10,000 but not more than RMB 20,000.

1. What are the penalties for paid escorts

The concept of paid escorts:

"Paid escorts" mainly refers to the treatment of "emotions", "travel", etc. The act of "accompanying" and "companioning" in exchange for reward. In commercial entertainment venues in China, it is illegal to provide paid escorts such as drinking and singing for profit.

Currently, there are only penalties for business premises and no penalties for those who participate in escorting.

Legal basis:

"Entertainment Venue Management Regulations"

Article 14 Entertainment venues and their employees shall not engage in the following acts, and shall not enter the entertainment venues for the purpose of Provide conditions for persons to commit the following acts:

(1) Selling or providing drugs, or organizing, forcing, instigating, luring, deceiving, or allowing others to take or inject drugs;

(2) ) Organize, force, seduce, shelter, and introduce others to prostitution and whoring;

(3) Produce, sell, and disseminate obscene materials;

(4) Provide or engage in profit-making

(5) Gambling;

(6) Engaging in cult and superstitious activities;

(7) Other illegal and criminal activities.

Employees of entertainment venues are not allowed to take or inject drugs, and are not allowed to engage in prostitution or whoring; entertainment venues and their employees are not allowed to provide conditions for persons entering entertainment venues to commit the above behaviors.

Article 41

Anyone who violates the provisions of these regulations and engages in entertainment venue business activities without authorization shall be banned by the competent industrial and cultural departments in accordance with the law; the public security department shall investigate and handle public security and criminal cases. , whoever is found to be engaged in entertainment venue business activities without authorization shall be banned in accordance with the law.

Article 42 Anyone who violates the provisions of these regulations and obtains an entertainment business license by deception or other improper means shall have the entertainment business license revoked by the original issuing authority.

Article 43 If an entertainment venue commits the acts prohibited by Article 14 of these Regulations, the county-level public security department shall confiscate illegal gains and illegal property, and order it to suspend operations for 3 to 6 months; in serious cases, If the violation occurs, the entertainment business license shall be revoked by the original licensing authority, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than RMB 10,000 but not more than RMB 20,000.