§ 240.37 Loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.
1. For the purposes of this section, "public place" means any street,
sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or
transportation facility or the doorways and entrance ways to any building
which fronts on any of the aforesaid places, or a motor vehicle in or on
any such place.
2. Any person who remains or wanders about in a public place and
repeatedly beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or repeatedly attempts to stop,
or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in conversation, or repeatedly
stops or attempts to stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly interferes with the
free passage of other persons, for the purpose of prostitution, or of
patronizing a prostitute as those terms are defined in article two hundred
thirty of the penal law, shall be guilty of a violation and is guilty of a
class B misdemeanor if such person has previously been convicted of a
violation of this section or of sections 230.00 or 230.05 of the penal law.
3. Any person who remains or wanders about in a public place and
repeatedly beckons to, or repeatedly stops, or repeatedly attempts to stop,
or repeatedly attempts to engage passers-by in converstion, or repeatedly
stops or attempts to stop motor vehicles, or repeatedly interferes with the
free passage of other persons, for the purpose of promoting prostitution as
defined in article two hundred thirty of the penal law is guilty of a class
A misdemeanor.
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