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assembly Bill A4987
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
WEPRIN
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
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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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