N.Y. Penal Law Section 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.

Source: Section 230.25 — Promoting prostitution in the third degree, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/230.­25 (updated Jan. 22, 2016; accessed Nov. 15, 2025).

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