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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="3-1201" title_number="3" title_name="Other Crimes Against the Person" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Labor Trafficking">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Coercion” includes actual or threatened:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>use of physical force against an individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>restraint, abduction, isolation, or confinement of an individual against the individual’s will and without lawful authority;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>control or direction of the activity of an individual through debt bondage;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>destruction, concealment, removal, confiscation, withholding, or possession of an actual or purported passport, immigration document, or governmental identification document of an individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>infliction of serious psychological harm to an individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>control of an individual’s access to a controlled dangerous substance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>exposure or dissemination of any fact or information that would tend to subject an individual to criminal or immigration proceedings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>notification to 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; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>exploitation of a vulnerable adult.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Controlled dangerous substance” has the meaning stated in § 5–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Debt bondage” means 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="1">
      <text>the value of the labor, services, or sex act is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the nature of the labor, services, or sex act is not limited or defined; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <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="e">
    <text>“Vulnerable adult” has the meaning stated in § 3–604 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
