Bill Text: NY A04231 | 2019-2020 | 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) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A04231 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04231-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4231
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
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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.  Subdivisions  2 and 3 of section 240.37 of the penal law,
     2  subdivision 2 as amended and subdivision 3 as added by  chapter  368  of
     3  the  laws  of 2015, are amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read
     4  as follows:
     5    2. [Any] Except as provided in subdivision five of this  section,  any
     6  person  who  remains  or  wanders about in a public place and repeatedly
     7  beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or  repeatedly  attempts  to  stop,  or
     8  repeatedly  attempts to engage passers-by in conversation, or repeatedly
     9  stops or attempts to stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly interferes  with
    10  the  free  passage  of other persons, for the purpose of prostitution as
    11  that term is defined in article two hundred thirty of this  part,  shall
    12  be  guilty of a violation and is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if such
    13  person has previously been convicted of a violation of this  section  or
    14  of section 230.00 of this part.
    15    3.  Any  person  who  remains  or  wanders about in a public place and
    16  repeatedly beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or  repeatedly  attempts  to
    17  stop, passers-by, or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in conver-
    18  sation,  or  repeatedly  stops  or  attempts  to stop motor vehicles, or
    19  repeatedly interferes with the free passage of other  persons,  for  the
    20  purpose  of  patronizing a person for prostitution as defined in section
    21  230.02 of this part, shall be guilty of a violation and is guilty  of  a
    22  class  B  misdemeanor  if such person has previously been convicted of a
    23  violation of this section or of section 230.04, 230.05, 230.06 or 230.08
    24  of this part.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 4231                             2
     1    5. Any person under the age of sixteen who remains or wanders about in
     2  a public place and  repeatedly  beckons  to,  or  repeatedly  stops,  or
     3  repeatedly  attempts  to  stop,  passers-by,  or  repeatedly attempts to
     4  engage passers-by in conversation, or repeatedly stops  or  attempts  to
     5  stop  motor  vehicles, or repeatedly interferes with the free passage of
     6  other persons, for the purpose of prostitution as defined in article two
     7  hundred thirty of this part, shall be adjudged a juvenile delinquent.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.