Assembly Bill A8026

Signed By Governor
2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to the crime of promoting prostitution in the fourth degree

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A8026 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5623
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §230.20, Pen L

2011-A8026 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the crime of promoting prostitution in the fourth degree; includes the act of distributing obscene material or material that depicts nudity if such distribution is done with intent to advance or profit from prostitution.

2011-A8026 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8026

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 27, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. MOYA -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  the  crime  of  promoting
  prostitution in the fourth degree

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Section 230.20 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 627
of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
S 230.20 Promoting prostitution in the fourth degree.
  A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the fourth degree when
he OR SHE knowingly [advances]:
  1. ADVANCES or profits from prostitution[.]; OR
  2. WITH INTENT TO ADVANCE OR PROFIT FROM PROSTITUTION, DISTRIBUTES  OR
DISSEMINATES  TO  TEN OR MORE PEOPLE IN A PUBLIC PLACE OBSCENE MATERIAL,
AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED BY SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF SECTION  235.00
OF  THIS TITLE, OR MATERIAL THAT DEPICTS NUDITY, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED
BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 245.10 OF THIS PART.
  Promoting prostitution in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11821-01-1


              

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