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N.Y. Penal Law § 230.25: Promoting prostitution in the third degree

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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

§ 230.25 Promoting prostitution in the third degree.

A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the third degree when

he or she knowingly:

1. Advances or profits from prostitution by managing, supervising,

controlling or owning, either alone or in association with others, a

house of prostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involving

prostitution activity by two or more persons in prostitution, or a

business that sells travel-related services knowing that such services

include or are intended to facilitate travel for the purpose of

patronizing a person for prostitution, including to a foreign

jurisdiction and regardless of the legality of prostitution in said

foreign jurisdiction; or

2. Advances or profits from prostitution of a person less than

nineteen years old.

Promoting prostitution in the third degree is a class D felony.

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