New York Penal Code § 230.03

Prostitution in a school zone
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§ 230.03 Prostitution in a school zone.\n  1. A person is guilty of prostitution in a school zone when, being\nnineteen years of age or older, and acting during the hours that school\nis in session, he or she commits the crime of prostitution in violation\nof section 230.00 of this article at a place that he or she knows, or\nreasonably should know, is in a school zone, and he or she knows, or\nreasonably should know, that such act of prostitution is within the\ndirect view of children attending such school.\n  2. For the purposes of this section, section 230.08 and section 230.19\nof this article, "school zone" means (a) in or on or within any\nbuilding, structure, athletic playing field, playground or land\ncontained within the real property boundary line of a public or private\nelementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational, or high\nschool, or (b) any public sidewalk, street, parking lot, park,\nplayground or private land, located immediately adjacent to the boundary\nline of such school.\n  Prostitution in a school zone is a class A misdemeanor.\n

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