§ 135.35 Labor trafficking.\n A person is guilty of labor trafficking if he or she compels or\ninduces another to engage in labor or recruits, entices, harbors, or\ntransports such other person by means of intentionally:\n 1. requiring that the labor be performed to retire, repay, or service\na real or purported debt that the actor has caused by a systematic\nongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud such person;\n 2. withholding, destroying, or confiscating any actual or purported\npassport, immigration document, or any other actual or purported\ngovernment identification document, of another person with intent to\nimpair said person's freedom of movement; provided, however, that this\nsubdivision shall not apply to an attempt to correct a social security\nadministration record or immigration agency record in accordance with\nany local, state, or federal agency requirement, where such attempt is\nnot made for the purpose of any express or implied threat;\n 3. using force or engaging in any scheme, plan or pattern to compel or\ninduce such person to engage in or continue to engage in labor activity\nby means of instilling a fear in such person that, if the demand is not\ncomplied with, the actor or another will do one or more of the\nfollowing:\n (a) cause physical injury, serious physical injury, or death to a\nperson; or\n (b) cause damage to property, other than the property of the actor; or\n (c) engage in other conduct constituting a felony or unlawful\nimprisonment in the second degree in violation of section 135.05 of this\narticle; or\n (d) accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or\ndeportation proceedings to be instituted against such person; provided,\nhowever, that it shall be an affirmative defense to this subdivision\nthat the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true\nand that his or her sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to\ntake reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of\nsuch threatened charge; or\n (e) expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or\nfalse, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt or ridicule;\nor\n (f) testify or provide information or withhold testimony or\ninformation with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or\n (g) use or abuse his or her position as a public servant by performing\nsome act within or related to his or her official duties, or by failing\nor refusing to perform an official duty, in such manner as to affect\nsome person adversely.\n Labor trafficking is a class D felony.\n
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