Page 1 LexisNexis' I of 100 DOCUMENTS NEW YORK CONSOLIDATED LAW SERVICE Copyright (c) 2005 Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., one of the LEXIS Publishing (TM) companies All rights reserved *** ARCHIVE *** *** THIS SECTION IS CURRENT THROUGH THE 2005 SESSION *** PENAL LAW PART THREE. SPECIFIC OFFENSES TITLE M. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS ARTICLE 230. PROSTITUTION OFFENSES NY CIS Penal 230.05 (2005) 0 230.05. Patronizing a prostitute in the second degree A person is guilty of patronizing a prostitute in the second degree when, being over eighteen years of age, he patronizes a prostitute and the person patronized is less than fourteen years of age. Patronizing a prostitute in the second degree is a class E felony. HISTORY: Add, L 1978, ch 627, B 2, eff Sept 1, 1978. Former 0 230.05, add, L 1965, ch 1030, B I; renumbered 0 230.02, L 1978, ch 627, B I, eff Sept 1, 1978. NOTES: Commission Staff Notes In substance, this section, which is new, makes it a violation for a person to hire or attempt to hire a prostitute or anyone else to engage in sexual conduct with him. Though not formerly an offense in New York, such "patronizing" conduct is proscribed in various forms by the penal codes of several other jurisdictions, including the recently revised codes of Illinois and Wisconsin and it is included as an offense in the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code (B 251.1[5]). At the public hearings held by the Commission with respect to the new Penal Law, and in conferences and correspondence with the Commission and its staff, a number of persons and organizations have strongly urged the inclusion of a "patronizing" offense. The reasons most vigorously advanced are: (I) that criminal sanctions against the patron as well as the prostitute should aid in the curtailment of prostitution; and (2) that to penalize the prostitute and exempt the equally culpable patron is inherently unjust. After consideration of these contentions, the Commi