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                               ARTICLE 230
                          PROSTITUTION OFFENSES
Section 230.00 Prostitution.
        230.02 Patronizing a prostitute; definitions.
        230.04 Patronizing a prostitute in the third degree.
        230.05 Patronizing a prostitute in the second degree.
        230.06 Patronizing a prostitute in the first degree.
        230.07 Patronizing a prostitute; defense.
        230.10 Prostitution and patronizing a prostitute; no defense.
        230.15 Promoting prostitution; definitions of terms.
        230.20 Promoting prostitution in the fourth degree.
        230.25 Promoting prostitution in the third degree.
        230.30 Promoting prostitution in the second degree.
        230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
        230.33 Compelling prostitution. 
        230.34 Sex Trafficking
        230.35 Promoting or compelling prostitution; accomplice. 
        230.36 Sex Trafficking: accomplice
        230.40 Permitting prostitution. 

S 230.00 Prostitution.
  A person is guilty of prostitution when such person engages or agrees
or offers to engage in sexual conduct with another person in return for
a fee.
  Prostitution is a class B Misdemeanor.

 S 230.02 Patronizing a prostitute; definitions.
  1. A person patronizes a prostitute when:
  (a) Pursuant to a prior understanding, he pays a fee to another person
as compensation for such person or a third person having engaged in
sexual conduct with him; or
  (b) He pays or agrees to pay a fee to another person pursuant to an
understanding that in return therefore such person or a third person will
engage in sexual conduct with him; or
  (c) He solicits or requests another person to engage in sexual conduct
with him in return for a fee.
  2. As used in this article, "person who is patronized" means the
person with whom the defendant engaged in sexual conduct or was to have
engaged in sexual conduct pursuant to the understanding, or the person
who was solicited or requested by the defendant to engage in sexual
conduct.

S 230.04 Patronizing a prostitute in the third degree.
  A person is guilty of patronizing a prostitute in the third degree
when, being over twenty-one years of age, he patronizes a prostitute and
the person patronized is less than seventeen years of age.
  Patronizing a prostitute in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor.

S 230.05 Patronizing a prostitute in the second degree.
  A person is guilty of patronizing a prostitute in the second degree
when, being over eighteen years of age, he patronizes a prostitute and
the person patronized is less than fourteen years of age.
  Patronizing a prostitute in the second degree is a class E felony.

S 230.06 Patronizing a prostitute in the first degree.
  A person is guilty of patronizing a prostitute in the first degree
when he patronizes a prostitute and the person patronized is less than
eleven years of age.
  Patronizing a prostitute in the first degree is a class D felony.

 S 230.07 Patronizing a prostitute; defense.
  In any prosecution for patronizing a prostitute in the first, second
or third degrees, it is a defense that the defendant did not have
reasonable grounds to believe that the person was less than the age
specified.

S 230.10 Prostitution and patronizing a prostitute; no defense.
  In any prosecution for prostitution or patronizing a prostitute, the
sex of the two parties or prospective parties to the sexual conduct
engaged in, contemplated or solicited is immaterial, and it is no
defense that:
  1. Such persons were of the same sex; or
  2. The person who received, agreed to receive or solicited a fee was a
male and the person who paid or agreed or offered to pay such fee was a
female.

 S 230.15 Promoting prostitution; definitions of terms.
  The following definitions are applicable to this article:
  1. "Advance prostitution." A person "advances prostitution" when,
acting other than as a prostitute or as a patron thereof, he knowingly
causes or aids a person to commit or engage in prostitution, procures or
solicits patrons for prostitution, provides persons or premises for
prostitution purposes, operates or assists in the operation of a house
of prostitution or a prostitution enterprise, or engages in any other
conduct designed to institute, aid or facilitate an act or enterprise of
prostitution.
  2. "Profit from prostitution." A person "profits from prostitution"
when, acting other than as a prostitute receiving compensation for
personally rendered prostitution services, he accepts or receives money
or other property pursuant to an agreement or understanding with any
person whereby he participates or is to participate in the proceeds of
prostitution activity.

S 230.20 Promoting prostitution in the fourth degree.
  A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the fourth degree when
he knowingly advances or profits from prostitution.
  Promoting prostitution in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.

S 230.25 Promoting prostitution in the third degree.
  A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the third degree when
he knowingly:
  1. Advances or profits from prostitution by managing, supervising,
controlling or owning, either alone or in association with others, a
house of prostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involving
prostitution activity by two or more prostitutes; or
  2. Advances or profits from prostitution of a person less than
nineteen years old.
  Promoting prostitution in the third degree is a class D felony.
  
S 230.30 Promoting prostitution in the second degree.
  A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the second degree when
he knowingly:
  1. Advances prostitution by compelling a person by force or
intimidation to engage in prostitution, or profits from such coercive
conduct by another; or
  2. Advances or profits from prostitution of a person less than sixteen
years old.
  Promoting prostitution in the second degree is a class C felony.

S 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
  A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree when
he knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of a person less than
eleven years old.
  Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony.

S 230.33 Compelling prostitution.
  A  person  is guilty of compelling prostitution when, being twenty-one
years of age or older, he or  she  knowingly  advances  prostitution  by
compelling   a   person  less  than  sixteen  years  old,  by  force  or
intimidation, to engage in prostitution.
  Compelling prostitution is a class B felony.

S 230.34 Sex trafficking.
  A  person  is  guilty  of  sex  trafficking if he or she intentionally
advances or profits from prostitution by:
  1. unlawfully providing to a person who is patronized, with intent  to
impair  said  person's  judgment:  (a)  a  narcotic  drug  or a narcotic
preparation; (b) concentrated cannabis as defined in  paragraph  (a)  of
subdivision  four  of  section  thirty-three  hundred  two of the public
health  law;  (c)  methadone;  or  (d)  gamma-hydroxybutyrate  (GHB)  or
flunitrazepan, also known as Rohypnol;
  2.  making  material  false statements, misstatements, or omissions to
induce or maintain the person being patronized to engage in or  continue
to engage in prostitution activity;
  3.  withholding,  destroying,  or confiscating any actual or purported
passport,  immigration  document,  or  any  other  actual  or  purported
government  identification  document  of  another  person with intent to
impair said person's freedom of movement; provided, however,  that  this
subdivision  shall  not apply to an attempt to correct a social security
administration record or immigration agency record  in  accordance  with
any  local,  state, or federal agency requirement, where such attempt is
not made for the purpose of any express or implied threat;
  4. requiring that prostitution  be  performed  to  retire,  repay,  or
service a real or purported debt;
  5. using force or engaging in any scheme, plan or pattern to compel or
induce the person being patronized to engage in or continue to engage in
prostitution  activity by means of instilling a fear in the person being
patronized that, if the demand  is  not  complied  with,  the  actor  or
another will do one or more of the following:
  (a)  cause  physical  injury,  serious  physical injury, or death to a
person; or
  (b) cause damage to property, other than the property of the actor; or
  (c)  engage  in  other  conduct  constituting  a  felony  or  unlawful
imprisonment in the second degree in violation of section 135.05 of this
chapter; or
  (d)  accuse  some  person  of  a  crime  or  cause criminal charges or
deportation proceedings to be instituted against some person;  provided,
however,  that  it  shall  be an affirmative defense to this subdivision
that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be  true
and  that  his or her sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to
take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the  subject  of
such threatened charge; or
  (e)  expose  a  secret  or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or
false, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt  or  ridicule;
or
  (f)testify or provide information or withhold testimony or
information with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or
  (g) use or abuse his or her position as a public servant by performing
some act within or related to his or her official duties, or by  failing
or refusing to perform an official duty, in such manner as to affect
some person adversely; or
  (h) perform any other act which would not in itself materially benefit
the actor but which is calculated to harm the person who  is  patronized
materially with respect to his or her health, safety, or immigration
status.
     Sex trafficking is a class B felony.

S 230.35 Promoting or compelling prostitution; accomplice.
  In a prosecution for promoting prostitution or compelling
prostitution, a person less than  seventeen years of age from whose
prostitution activity another  person is alleged to have advanced or
attempted to advance or profited or attempted to profit shall not be
deemed to be an accomplice.

S 230.36 Sex trafficking; accomplice.
    In a prosecution for sex trafficking, a person from whose prostitution
activity another person is alleged  to have advanced or attempted to
advance or profited or attempted to profit shall not be deemed to be an
accomplice.

S 230.40 Permitting prostitution.
  A  person is guilty of permitting prostitution when, having possession
or control of premises which he knows are being  used  for  prostitution
purposes, he fails to make reasonable effort to halt or abate such use.
  Permitting prostitution is a class B misdemeanor.

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