N.Y. Public Health Law § 2320: Houses of prostitution; equipment; nuisance

§ 2320. Houses of prostitution; equipment; nuisance. 1. Whoever shall

erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own, or lease any building,

erection, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or

prostitution is guilty of maintaining a nuisance.

2. The building, erection, or place, or the ground itself, in or upon

which any lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is conducted,

permitted, or carried on, continued, or exists, and the furniture,

fixtures, musical instruments, and movable property used in conducting

or maintaining such nuisance, are hereby declared to be a nuisance and

shall be enjoined and abated as hereafter provided.