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Assembly Bill A4987

2017-2018 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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2017-A4987 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.37, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4530
2011-2012: A4973, A8943
2013-2014: A798
2015-2016: A2831
2019-2020: A4231

2017-A4987 (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.

2017-A4987 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4987
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- 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.  Subdivisions  2 and 3 of section 240.37 of the penal law,
 subdivision 2 as amended and subdivision 3 as added by  chapter  368  of
 the  laws  of 2015, are amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read
 as follows:
   2. [Any] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION FIVE 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,  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 as
 that term is defined in article two hundred thirty of 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 section 230.00 of 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
 purpose  of  patronizing a person for prostitution as defined in section
 230.02 of 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 section 230.04, 230.05, 230.06 or 230.08
 of this part.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09150-01-7

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