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Assembly Bill A6542

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and including daycare facilities within the definitition of a school zone

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2015-A6542 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S463
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §230.06-a, amd §230.03, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S7858
2013-2014: A23, S20
2017-2018: S508, S7223

2015-A6542 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and includes daycare facilities within the definition of a school zone.

2015-A6542 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6542

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 26, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
  patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and including daycare facil-
  ities within the definition of a school zone

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

  Section  1.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 230.06-a
to read as follows:
S 230.06-A PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL  ZONE  WHEN
SUCH  PERSON  PATRONIZES  A  PROSTITUTE  IN  A SCHOOL ZONE AS DEFINED IN
SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 230.03 OF THIS ARTICLE.
  PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE IS A CLASS D FELONY.
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 230.03 of the penal  law,  as  added  by
chapter 191 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  2.  For  the purposes of this section and section 230.19 of this arti-
cle, "school zone" means (a) in or on or within any building, structure,
athletic playing field, playground or land  contained  within  the  real
property  boundary  line  of  a public or private elementary, parochial,
intermediate, junior high, vocational, or high school, OR DAYCARE FACIL-
ITY, or (b) any public sidewalk, street, parking lot,  park,  playground
or  private  land,  located immediately adjacent to the boundary line of
such school OR FACILITY.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00064-01-5

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