STATE OF NEW YORK
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6542
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 26, 2015
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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:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 230.06-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 230.06-a Patronizing a prostitute in a school zone.
4 A person is guilty of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone when
5 such person patronizes a prostitute in a school zone as defined in
6 subdivision two of section 230.03 of this article.
7 Patronizing a prostitute in a school zone is a class D felony.
8 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 230.03 of the penal law, as added by
9 chapter 191 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
10 2. For the purposes of this section and section 230.19 of this arti-
11 cle, "school zone" means (a) in or on or within any building, structure,
12 athletic playing field, playground or land contained within the real
13 property boundary line of a public or private elementary, parochial,
14 intermediate, junior high, vocational, or high school, or daycare facil-
15 ity, or (b) any public sidewalk, street, parking lot, park, playground
16 or private land, located immediately adjacent to the boundary line of
17 such school or facility.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
19 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.
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