Penal Law § 230.25 · Article 230. Prostitution Offenses
Promoting prostitution in the third degree
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§ 230.25 Promoting prostitution in the third degree.
A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the third degree when he or she knowingly:
1. Advances or profits from prostitution by managing, supervising, controlling or owning, either alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involving prostitution activity by two or more persons in prostitution, or a business that sells travel-related services knowing that such services include or are intended to facilitate travel for the purpose of patronizing a person for prostitution, including to a foreign jurisdiction and regardless of the legality of prostitution in said foreign jurisdiction; or
2. Advances or profits from prostitution of a person less than nineteen years old.
Promoting prostitution in the third degree is a class D felony.
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