Criminal solicitation in the third degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 100.08 Criminal solicitation in the third degree.
A person is guilty of criminal solicitation in the third degree when, being over eighteen years of age, with intent that another person under sixteen years of age engage in conduct that would constitute a felony, he solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to cause such other person to engage in such conduct.
Criminal solicitation in the third degree is a class E felony.
A person over 18 commits third-degree criminal solicitation by intending that someone under 16 commit a felony and soliciting, requesting, commanding, urging, or otherwise trying to cause that conduct. ★ It is a class E felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.