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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2831
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2015
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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:
1 Section 1. Section 240.37 of the penal law, as added by chapter 344 of
2 the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 240.37 Loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution
4 offense.
5 1. For the purposes of this section, "public place" means any street,
6 sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot
7 or transportation facility or the doorways and entrance ways to any
8 building which fronts on any of the aforesaid places, or a motor vehicle
9 in or on any such place.
10 2. [Any] Except as provided in subdivision four of this section, any
11 person who remains or wanders about in a public place and repeatedly
12 beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or repeatedly attempts to stop,
13 passers-by, or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in conversation,
14 or repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly
15 interferes with the free passage of other persons, for the purpose of
16 prostitution, or of patronizing a prostitute as those terms are defined
17 in article two hundred thirty of [the penal law] this part, shall be
18 guilty of a violation and is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if such
19 person has previously been convicted of a violation of this section or
20 of [sections] section 230.00 or 230.05 of [the penal law] this part.
21 3. Any person who remains or wanders about in a public place and
22 repeatedly beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or repeatedly attempts to
23 stop, passers-by, or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in conver-
24 sation, or repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicles, or
25 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.
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1 purpose of promoting prostitution as defined in article two hundred
2 thirty of [the penal law] this part is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
3 4. Any person under the age of sixteen who remains or wanders about in
4 a public place and repeatedly beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or
5 repeatedly attempts to stop, passers-by, or repeatedly attempts to
6 engage passers-by in conversation, or repeatedly stops or attempts to
7 stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly interferes with the free passage of
8 other persons, for the purpose of prostitution as defined in article two
9 hundred thirty of this part, shall be adjudged a juvenile delinquent.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
