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<section number="14-191" name="Definitions" law="code" slug="sec-14-191" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_14MOCO_DIV19HUSETRHULATR_S14-191DE">
  <level label="a">
    <text>As used in this Division:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Coercion shall mean:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>Using or threatening to use physical force against an individual;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>Restraining, abducting, isolating, or confining an individual against the individual's will and without lawful authority;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>Threatening to restrain, abduct, isolate, or confine an individual against the individual's will and without lawful authority;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="D">
        <text>Controlling or directing the activity of an individual through debt bondage;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="E">
        <text>Destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, withholding, or possessing an actual or purported passport, immigration document, or governmental identification document of an individual;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="F">
        <text>Causing or threatening to cause psychological harm to an individual;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="G">
        <text>Controlling or threatening to control an individual's access to a controlled dangerous substance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="H">
        <text>Exposing or disseminating or threatening to expose or disseminate any fact or information that would tend to subject an individual to criminal or immigration proceedings;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="I">
        <text>Threatening to notify an agency or unit of the State or Federal Government that an individual is present in the United States in violation of Federal Immigration Law;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="J">
        <text>Exploiting an individual's physical impairment, developmental disability, intellectual disability, or mental disorder; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="K">
        <text>Using a plan, pattern, or scheme with intent to:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>Cause an individual to believe that failure to perform an act will result in the use of force, restraint, abduction, isolation, or confinement;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>Cause psychological harm to a person; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iii">
          <text>Engage in any activity described in subsection (A) through (K) of this subsection.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Controlled Dangerous Substance shall mean the definition in Section 14-164(a) of the County Code.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Debt Bondage shall mean the status or condition of an individual who provides labor, services, or sex acts to pay a real or alleged debt, where:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>The value of the labor, services, or sex act is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>The nature of the labor, services, or sex act is not limited or defined; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>The amount of the debt does not reasonably reflect the value of items, services, or other things of value for which the debt was incurred.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Developmental Disability shall mean a severe chronic disability of an individual that:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>Is attributable to a physical or mental impairment, other than the sole diagnosis of mental illness, or to a combination of mental and physical impairments;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>Is manifested before the individual attains the age of 22;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>Is likely to continue indefinitely;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="D">
        <text>Results in an inability to live independently without external support or continuing and regular assistance; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="E">
        <text>Reflects the need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services that are individually planned and coordinated for the individual.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Human Sex Trafficking shall mean:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>knowingly:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>Taking or causing another to be taken to any place for prostitution;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>Placing, causing to be placed, or harboring another in any place for prostitution;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iii">
          <text>Persuading, inducing, enticing, or encouraging another to be taken to or placed in any place for prostitution;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iv">
          <text>Receiving consideration to procure for or place in a house of prostitution or elsewhere another with the intent of causing the other to engage in prostitution or assignation;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="v">
          <text>Engaging in a device, scheme, or continuing course of conduct intended to cause another to believe that if the other did not take part in a sexually explicit performance, the other or a third person would suffer physical restraint or serious physical harm; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="vi">
          <text>Destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing an actual or purported passport, immigration document, or government identification document of another while otherwise violating or attempting to violate this subsection.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>A parent, guardian, or person who has permanent or temporary care or custody or responsibility for supervision of another consenting to the taking or detention of the other for exchange of commercial sex of a minor for money.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>knowingly taking or detaining another with the intent to use force, threat, coercion, or fraud to compel the other to marry the person or a third person or perform a sexual act, sexual contact, or vaginal or rectal intercourse.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Intellectual Disability shall mean a developmental disability that is evidenced by significant below average intellectual functioning and impairment in the adaptive behavior of an individual.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Human Labor Trafficking shall mean:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>knowingly:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>Taking, placing, harboring, persuading, inducing, or enticing another by force, fraud, or coercion to provide services or labor; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>Receiving a benefit or thing of value from the provision of services or labor by another that was induced by force, fraud, or coercion.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Mental Disorder shall mean a behavioral or emotional illness that results from a psychiatric disorder. It includes a mental illness that so substantially impairs the mental or emotional functioning of an individual as to make care or treatment necessary or advisable for the welfare of the individual or for the safety of the person or property of another. It does not include an intellectual disability.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
