Patronizing a person for prostitution in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 230.05 Patronizing a person for prostitution in the second degree.
A person is guilty of patronizing a person for prostitution in the second degree when, being eighteen years old or more, he or she patronizes a person for prostitution and the person patronized is less than fifteen years old.
Patronizing a person for prostitution in the second degree is a class E felony.
A person 18 years old or older who patronizes a person younger than 15 years for prostitution commits patronizing a person for prostitution in the second degree, 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.