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NY Penal L § 230.30 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses 230.30 - Promoting Prostitution in the Second Degree.

§ 230.30 Promoting prostitution in the second degree.A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the second degree when   he or she knowingly:1.   Advances   prostitution  by  compelling  a  person  by  force  or   intimidation to engage in prostitution, or profits  from  such  coercive   conduct by another; or2.  Advances  or  profits  from  prostitution  of  a  person less than   eighteen years old.Promoting prostitution in the second degree is a class C felony.
NY Penal L § 230.32 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses 230.32 - Promoting Prostitution in the First Degree.

§ 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.A  person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree when   he or she:1. knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of  a  person  less   than thirteen years old; or2. being twenty-one years old or more, he or she knowingly advances or   profits from prostitution of a person less than fifteen years old.Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony.
NY Penal L § 230.33 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses 230.33 - Compelling Prostitution.

§ 230.33 Compelling prostitution.A  person  is  guilty  of compelling prostitution when, being eighteen   years old  or  more,  he  or  she  knowingly  advances  prostitution  by   compelling   a  person  less  than  eighteen  years  old,  by  force  or   intimidation, to engage in prostitution.Compelling prostitution is a class B felony.
NY Penal L § 230.34-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses 230.34-A - Sex Trafficking of a Child.

§ 230.34-a Sex trafficking of a child.   1.  A  person  is guilty of sex trafficking of a child when he or she, being twenty-one years old or more, intentionally  advances  or  profits from prostitution of another person and such person is a child less than eighteen  years old. Knowledge by the defendant of the age of such child is not an element of  this  offense  and  it  is  not  a  defense  to  a prosecution  therefor  that  the  defendant  did not know the age of the child or believed such age to be eighteen or over.   2. For purposes of this section:  (a) A person "advances prostitution" when,  acting  other  than  as  a person  in prostitution or as a patron thereof, and with intent to cause prostitution, he or she directly engages in conduct that facilitates  an act or enterprise of prostitution.  (b)  A person "profits from prostitution" when, acting other than as a person in prostitution receiving compensation  for  personally  rendered prostitution services, and with intent to facilitate prostitution, he or she accepts or receives money or other property pursuant to an agreement or  understanding  with any person whereby he or she participates in the proceeds of prostitution activity.   Sex trafficking of a child is a class B felony.
NY Penal L § 230.35 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses 230.35 - Promoting or Compelling Prostitution; Accomplice.

§ 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.
NY Penal L § 230.36 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses 230.36 - Sex Trafficking; Accomplice.

§ 230.36 Sex trafficking; accomplice.In a prosecution for sex trafficking, a person 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.
NY Penal L § 230.40 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses 230.40 - Permitting Prostitution.

§ 230.40 Permitting prostitution.A  person is guilty of permitting prostitution when, having possession   or control of premises or vehicle which he or she knows are  being  used   for  prostitution purposes or for the purpose of advancing prostitution,   he or she fails to make reasonable effort to halt or abate such use.Permitting prostitution is a class B misdemeanor.
NY Penal L § 235.00 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.00 - Obscenity; Definitions of Terms.

§ 235.00 Obscenity; definitions of terms.The  following  definitions  are applicable to sections 235.05, 235.10   and 235.15:1. "Obscene." Any material or performance  is  "obscene"  if  (a)  the   average  person,  applying  contemporary community standards, would find   that considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is  to  the  prurient   interest in sex, and (b) it depicts or describes in a patently offensive   manner,  actual  or  simulated: sexual intercourse, criminal sexual act,   sexual bestiality, masturbation, sadism, masochism,  excretion  or  lewd   exhibition  of  the  genitals,  and  (c) considered as a whole, it lacks   serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value. Predominant   appeal shall be judged with  reference  to  ordinary  adults  unless  it   appears  from  the character of the material or the circumstances of its   dissemination to be designed for children or other specially susceptible   audience.2. "Material" means anything tangible which is capable of  being  used   or  adapted  to  arouse interest, whether through the medium of reading,   observation, sound or in any other manner.3. "Performance" means  any  play,  motion  picture,  dance  or  other   exhibition performed before an audience.4.  "Promote"  means to manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend,   mail, deliver,  transfer,  transmute,  publish,  distribute,  circulate,   disseminate,  present,  exhibit or advertise, or to offer or agree to do   the same.5. "Wholesale promote" means to  manufacture,  issue,  sell,  provide,   mail,  deliver,  transfer,  transmute,  publish,  distribute, circulate,   disseminate or to offer or agree to do the same for purposes of resale.6. "Simulated" means the explicit depiction or description of  any  of   the  types of conduct set forth in clause (b) of subdivision one of this   section, which creates the appearance of such conduct.7. " Criminal sexual act" means any of the  types  of  sexual  conduct   defined  in subdivision two of section 130.00 provided, however, that in   any prosecution under this article the marital  status  of  the  persons   engaged in such conduct shall be irrelevant and shall not be considered.
NY Penal L § 235.05 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.05 - Obscenity in the Third Degree.

§ 235.05 Obscenity in the third degree.A  person is guilty of obscenity in the third degree when, knowing its   content and character, he:1.  Promotes,  or  possesses  with  intent  to  promote,  any  obscene   material; or2.   Produces,   presents   or   directs  an  obscene  performance  or   participates in a portion thereof which is obscene or which  contributes   to its obscenity.Obscenity in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor.
NY Penal L § 235.06 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.06 - Obscenity in the Second Degree.

§ 235.06 Obscenity in the second degree.A  person  is guilty of obscenity in the second degree when he commits   the crime of obscenity in the third degree as  defined  in  subdivisions   one  and  two  of section 235.05 of this chapter and has been previously   convicted of obscenity in the third degree.Obscenity in the second degree is a class E felony.
NY Penal L § 235.07 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.07 - Obscenity in the First Degree.

§ 235.07 Obscenity in the first degree.A  person is guilty of obscenity in the first degree when, knowing its   content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to   wholesale promote, any obscene material.Obscenity in the first degree is a class D felony.
NY Penal L § 235.10 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.10 - Obscenity; Presumptions.

§ 235.10 Obscenity; presumptions.1.  A  person  who promotes or wholesale promotes obscene material, or   possesses the same with intent to promote or wholesale  promote  it,  in   the  course  of  his business is presumed to do so with knowledge of its   content and character.2. A person who possesses six or more  identical  or  similar  obscene   articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.The  provisions of this section shall not apply to public libraries or   association libraries as defined  in  subdivision  two  of  section  two   hundred  fifty-three  of  the education law, or trustees or employees of   such public libraries or association libraries when acting in the course   and scope of their duties or employment.
NY Penal L § 235.15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.15 - Obscenity or Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the Second Degree; Defense.

§  235.15  Obscenity or disseminating indecent material to minors in the   second degree; defense.1.  In  any  prosecution  for  obscenity,  or  disseminating  indecent   material  to  minors  in  the  second degree in violation of subdivision   three of section 235.21 of this article, it is  an  affirmative  defense   that  the  persons  to whom allegedly obscene   or indecent material was   disseminated, or the  audience  to  an  allegedly  obscene  performance,   consisted  of  persons  or  institutions having scientific, educational,   governmental   or   other   similar   justification   for    possessing,   disseminating or viewing the same.2.    In  any  prosecution for obscenity, it is an affirmative defense   that the person so charged was a  motion  picture  projectionist,  stage   employee  or  spotlight  operator,  cashier, doorman, usher, candy stand   attendant, porter or in  any  other  non-managerial  or  non-supervisory   capacity  in  a  motion  picture  theatre;  provided he has no financial   interest, other than his employment, which employment does not encompass   compensation based upon any proportion of the  gross  receipts,  in  the   promotion  of  obscene material for sale, rental or exhibition or in the   promotion, presentation or direction of any obscene performance,  or  is   in  any  way responsible for acquiring obscene material for sale, rental   or exhibition.
NY Penal L § 235.20 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.20 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors; Definitions of Terms.

§  235.20    Disseminating  indecent  material to minors; definitions of terms.   The following definitions are applicable to sections  235.21,  235.22, 235.23 and 235.24 of this article:   1.  "Minor" means any person less than seventeen years old.   2.    "Nudity" means the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full  opaque  covering,  or  the showing  of  the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple,  or  the  depiction  of covered male genitals in a discernably turgid state.   3.  "Sexual conduct" means acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse,  or  physical  contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, breast.   4.  "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human  male  or  female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.   5.   "Sado-masochistic abuse" means flagellation or torture by or upon a person clad in undergarments,  a  mask  or  bizarre  costume,  or  the condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of one so clothed.   6.    "Harmful  to  minors"  means  that quality of any description or representation, in whatever form,  of  nudity,  sexual  conduct,  sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse, when it:  (a)  Considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex of minors; and  (b)    Is  patently  offensive  to  prevailing  standards in the adult community as a whole with respect  to  what  is  suitable  material  for minors; and  (c)    Considered  as  a  whole,  lacks  serious  literary,  artistic, political and scientific value for minors.   7. The term "access software"  means  software  (including  client  or server  software)  or  enabling  tools that do not create or provide the content of the communication but that allow a user to do any one or more of the following:  (a) filter, screen, allow or disallow content;  (b) pick, choose, analyze or digest content; or  (c)  transmit,  receive,  display,  forward,  cache,  search,  subset, organize, reorganize or translate content.
NY Penal L § 235.21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.21 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the Second Degree.

§ 235.21 Disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree.   A person is guilty of disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree when:   1.   With knowledge of its character and content, he sells or loans to a minor for monetary consideration:  (a)  Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of  the human  body  which  depicts  nudity,  sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse and which is harmful to minors; or  (b)  Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter however  reproduced, or sound recording which contains any matter enumerated in paragraph (a) hereof,  or  explicit  and  detailed  verbal  descriptions  or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic  abuse and which, taken as a whole, is harmful to minors; or   2.    Knowing  the  character and content of a motion picture, show or other presentation which, in whole or in part,  depicts  nudity,  sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse, and which is harmful to minors, he:  (a)    Exhibits  such  motion picture, show or other presentation to a minor for a monetary consideration; or  (b)  Sells to a minor an admission ticket or pass to premises  whereon there is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture, show or other presentation; or  (c)    Admits a minor for a monetary consideration to premises whereon there is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture show or  other presentation; or   3.  Knowing  the  character and content of the communication which, in whole or in part, depicts actual or simulated nudity, sexual conduct  or sado-masochistic abuse, and which is harmful to minors, he intentionally uses  any  computer  communication  system  allowing  the input, output, examination or transfer, of computer data or computer programs from  one computer  to another, to initiate or engage in such communication with a person who is a minor.   Disseminating indecent material to minors in the second  degree  is  a class E felony.
NY Penal L § 235.22 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.22 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the First Degree.

§ 235.22 Disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree.A person is guilty of disseminating indecent material to minors in the   first degree when:1.  knowing  the  character and content of the communication which, in   whole or in part, depicts or describes, either in words or images actual   or simulated nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse, and which   is harmful to minors, he intentionally uses any  computer  communication   system  allowing the input, output, examination or transfer, of computer   data or computer programs from one computer to another, to  initiate  or   engage in such communication with a person who is a minor; and2.  by means of such communication he importunes, invites or induces a   minor to engage in sexual  intercourse,  oral  sexual  conduct  or  anal   sexual  conduct,  or  sexual  contact with him, or to engage in a sexual   performance, obscene sexual  performance,  or  sexual  conduct  for  his   benefit.Disseminating  indecent  material  to  minors in the first degree is a   class D felony.
NY Penal L § 235.23 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.23 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors; Presumption and Defenses.

§  235.23    Disseminating  indecent material to minors; presumption and defenses.   1. A person who engages in the conduct proscribed by section 235.21 is presumed to do so with knowledge of the character  and  content  of  the material  sold  or  loaned,  or the motion picture, show or presentation exhibited or to be exhibited.   2. In any prosecution for disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree pursuant to subdivision one or two of  section  235.21 of this article, it is an affirmative defense that:  (a)  The  defendant  had  reasonable  cause  to believe that the minor involved was seventeen years old or more; and  (b)  Such minor exhibited to the  defendant  a  draft  card,  driver's license,  birth  certificate  or  other  official or apparently official document purporting to establish that such minor was seventeen years old or more.   3. In any prosecution for disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree pursuant to subdivision three  of  section  235.21  of this  article  or disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree pursuant to section 235.22 of this article, it shall be a defense that:  (a) The defendant made a reasonable effort to ascertain the  true  age of the minor and was unable to do so as a result of actions taken by the minor; or  (b)  The defendant has taken, in good faith, reasonable, effective and appropriate actions under  the  circumstances  to  restrict  or  prevent access  by  minors to materials specified in such subdivision, which may involve any appropriate measures to restrict minors from access to  such communications,  including  any method which is feasible under available technology; or  (c) The defendant has restricted access to such materials by requiring use of a verified credit card, debit account, adult access code or adult personal identification number; or  (d) The defendant has in good faith established a mechanism such  that the  labelling,  segregation or other mechanism enables such material to be automatically blocked or screened by software or  other  capabilities reasonably  available  to  responsible  adults  wishing  to  effect such blocking or screening and the  defendant  has  not  otherwise  solicited minors  not subject to such screening or blocking capabilities to access that material or to circumvent any such screening or blocking.
NY Penal L § 235.24 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PEN - Penal Part 3 - Specific Offenses Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses 235.24 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors; Limitations.

§ 235.24 Disseminating indecent material to minors; limitations.   In  any  prosecution  for disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree pursuant to subdivision three  of  section  235.21  of this  article  or disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree pursuant to section 235.22 of this article:   1. No person shall be held to have violated such provisions solely for providing access or connection to or from a facility, system, or network not under that person's control,  including  transmission,  downloading, intermediate  storage,  access  software,  or other related capabilities that are incidental to providing such access or connection that  do  not include the creation of the content of the communication.  (a)  The  limitations  provided  by  this  subdivision  shall  not  be applicable to a person who is a  conspirator  with  an  entity  actively involved  in the creation or knowing distribution of communications that violate such provisions, or who knowingly advertises the availability of such communications.  (b)  The  limitations  provided  by  this  subdivision  shall  not  be applicable  to a person who provides access or connection to a facility, system, or network engaged in the violation of such provisions  that  is owned or controlled by such person.   2.  No  employer  shall  be  held liable under such provisions for the actions of an employee or agent unless the employee's or agent's conduct is within the scope of his employment or agency and the employer  having knowledge  of  such  conduct,  authorizes  or  ratifies such conduct, or recklessly disregards such conduct.