Patronizing a person for prostitution; defense · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 230.07 Patronizing a person for prostitution; defense.
In any prosecution for patronizing a person for prostitution in the first or second degrees or patronizing a person for prostitution in a school zone, it is a defense that the defendant did not have reasonable grounds to believe that the person was less than the age specified.
In a prosecution for first- or second-degree patronizing a person for prostitution, or patronizing in a school zone, it is a defense that the defendant lacked reasonable grounds to believe the person was below the specified age. ★
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.