Bill Text: NY A04973 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-20 - enacting clause stricken [A04973 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04973-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4973
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 9, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAYERSOHN  --  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  S 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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       A. 4973                             2
    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    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   11  have become a law.