Bill Text: NY A06542 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and includes daycare facilities within the definition of a school zone.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to codes [A06542 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06542-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6542
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 26, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes
       AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
         patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and including daycare facil-
         ities within the definition of a school zone
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 230.06-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3  S 230.06-A PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE.
    4    A PERSON IS GUILTY OF PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL  ZONE  WHEN
    5  SUCH  PERSON  PATRONIZES  A  PROSTITUTE  IN  A SCHOOL ZONE AS DEFINED IN
    6  SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 230.03 OF THIS ARTICLE.
    7    PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE IS A CLASS D FELONY.
    8    S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 230.03 of the penal  law,  as  added  by
    9  chapter 191 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   10    2.  For  the purposes of this section and section 230.19 of this arti-
   11  cle, "school zone" means (a) in or on or within any building, structure,
   12  athletic playing field, playground or land  contained  within  the  real
   13  property  boundary  line  of  a public or private elementary, parochial,
   14  intermediate, junior high, vocational, or high school, OR DAYCARE FACIL-
   15  ITY, or (b) any public sidewalk, street, parking lot,  park,  playground
   16  or  private  land,  located immediately adjacent to the boundary line of
   17  such school OR FACILITY.
   18    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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