Promoting or compelling prostitution; accomplice · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 230.35 Promoting or compelling prostitution; accomplice.
In a prosecution for promoting prostitution or compelling prostitution, a person less than eighteen years old from whose prostitution activity another person is alleged to have advanced or attempted to advance or profited or attempted to profit shall not be deemed to be an accomplice.
In a prosecution for promoting or compelling prostitution, a person younger than 18 years from whose prostitution activity another person allegedly advanced or profited, or attempted to, is not treated as an accomplice. ★
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.