18 U.S.C. § 1384 : US Code - Section 1384: Prostitution near military and naval establishments

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1384 : US Code - Section 1384: Prostitution near military and naval establishments

Within such reasonable distance of any military or naval camp,
station, fort, post, yard, base, cantonment, training or
mobilization place as the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of
the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, or any two or all of them
shall determine to be needful to the efficiency, health, and
welfare of the Army, the Navy, or the Air Force, and shall
designate and publish in general orders or bulletins, whoever
engages in prostitution or aids or abets prostitution or procures
or solicits for purposes of prostitution, or keeps or sets up a
house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdy house, or receives any person
for purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution into any
vehicle, conveyance, place, structure, or building, or permits any
person to remain for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or
prostitution in any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure, or
building or leases or rents or contracts to lease or rent any
vehicle, conveyance, place, structure or building, or part thereof,
knowing or with good reason to know that it is intended to be used
for any of the purposes herein prohibited shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force and the Federal
Security Administrator shall take such steps as they deem necessary
to suppress and prevent such violations thereof, and shall accept
the cooperation of the authorities of States and their counties,
districts, and other political subdivisions in carrying out the
purpose of this section.
This section shall not be construed as conferring on the
personnel of the Departments of the Army, Navy, or Air Force or the
Federal Security Agency any authority to make criminal
investigations, searches, seizures, or arrests of civilians charged
with violations of this section.