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Assembly Bill A4973

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Subjects persons under the age of sixteen, proven to have loitered for the purpose of prostitution, to the juvenile delinquency jurisdiction of the family court

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2011-A4973 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง240.37, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4530
2013-2014: A798
2015-2016: A2831
2017-2018: A4987
2019-2020: A4231

2011-A4973 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Subjects persons under the age of sixteen who are proven to have loitered for the purpose of prostitution to the juvenile delinquency jurisdiction of the family court.

2011-A4973 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4973

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 9, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAYERSOHN  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to loitering for the  purpose
  of engaging in prostitution by persons under the age of sixteen

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 240.37 of the penal law, as added by chapter 344 of
the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
S 240.37 Loitering  for  the  purpose  of  engaging  in  a  prostitution
             offense.
  1.  For the purposes of this section, "public place" means any street,
sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking  lot
or  transportation  facility  or  the  doorways and entrance ways to any
building which fronts on any of the aforesaid places, or a motor vehicle
in or on any such place.
  2. [Any] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS  SECTION,  ANY
person  who  remains  or  wanders about in a public place and repeatedly
beckons to,  or  repeatedly  stops,  or  repeatedly  attempts  to  stop,
PASSERS-BY, or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in conversation,
or  repeatedly  stops  or attempts to stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly
interferes with the free passage of other persons, for  the  purpose  of
prostitution,  or of patronizing a prostitute as those terms are defined
in article two hundred thirty of [the penal law]  THIS  PART,  shall  be
guilty  of  a  violation  and is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if such
person has previously been convicted of a violation of this  section  or
of [sections] SECTION 230.00 or 230.05 of [the penal law] THIS PART.
  3.  Any  person  who  remains  or  wanders about in a public place and
repeatedly beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or  repeatedly  attempts  to
stop, PASSERS-BY, or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in conver-
sation,  or  repeatedly  stops  or  attempts  to stop motor vehicles, or
repeatedly interferes with the free passage of other  persons,  for  the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08642-01-1

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