PROMOTING PROSTITUTION IN THE FOURTH DEGREE (Advance or Profit) Penal Law § 230.20(1) (Committed on or after January 19, 2016)1 The (specify) count is Promoting Prostitution in the Fourth Degree. Under our law, a person is guilty of Promoting Prostitution in the Fourth Degree when that person knowingly advances or profits from prostitution. The following terms used in that definition have a special meaning: PROSTITUTION means the act or practice of engaging, or agreeing or offering to engage in sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee.2 A person ADVANCES PROSTITUTION when, acting other than as a person in prostitution or as a patron thereof, he or she knowingly causes or aids a person to commit or engage in prostitution, procures or solicits patrons for prostitution, provides persons or premises for prostitution purposes, operates or assists in the operation of a house of prostitution or a prostitution enterprise, or engages in any other conduct designed to institute, aid or facilitate an act or enterprise of prostitution.3 See footnote 3. 1 Penal Law § 230.00. 2 Penal Law § 230.15 (1). Effective January 19, 2016, the definition 3 of were amended to “advances prostitution” and “profits from prostitution” substitute the acting other than as a person in terminology: “when, prostitution” for the acting other than as a prostitute.” terminology “when
PROMOTING PROSTITUTION IN THE FOURTH DEGREE (Advance or Profit) Penal Law § 230.20(1) (Committed on or after January 19, 2016)1 The (specify) count is Promoting Prostitution in the Fourth Degree. Under our law, a person is guilty of Promoting Prostitution in the Fourth Degree when that person knowingly advances or profits from prostitution. The following terms used in that definition have a special meaning: PROSTITUTION means the act or practice of engaging, or agreeing or offering to engage in sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee.2 A person ADVANCES PROSTITUTION when, acting other than as a person in prostitution or as a patron thereof, he or she knowingly causes or aids a person to commit or engage in prostitution, procures or solicits patrons for prostitution, provides persons or premises for prostitution purposes, operates or assists in the operation of a house of prostitution or a prostitution enterprise, or engages in any other conduct designed to institute, aid or facilitate an act or enterprise of prostitution.3 1 See footnote 3. 2 Penal Law § 230.00. 3 Penal Law § 230.15 (1). Effective January 19, 2016, the definition of “advances prostitution” and “profits from prostitution” were amended to substitute the terminology: “when, acting other than as a person in prostitution” for the terminology “when acting other than as a prostitute.”
230.20(1).docx