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N.Y. Penal Law § 230.03: Prostitution in a school zone

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  1. Penal Law
  2. Part 3. Specific Offenses
  3. Title M. Offenses Against Public Health and Morals
  4. Article 230. Prostitution Offenses

§ 230.03 Prostitution in a school zone.

1. A person is guilty of prostitution in a school zone when, being

nineteen years of age or older, and acting during the hours that school

is in session, he or she commits the crime of prostitution in violation

of section 230.00 of this article at a place that he or she knows, or

reasonably should know, is in a school zone, and he or she knows, or

reasonably should know, that such act of prostitution is within the

direct view of children attending such school.

2. For the purposes of this section, section 230.08 and section 230.19

of this article, "school zone" means (a) in or on or within any

building, structure, athletic playing field, playground or land

contained within the real property boundary line of a public or private

elementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational, or high

school, or (b) any public sidewalk, street, parking lot, park,

playground or private land, located immediately adjacent to the boundary

line of such school.

Prostitution in a school zone is a class A misdemeanor.

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