N.Y. Penal Law § 230.25 : Offenses Against Public Health And Morals — Penal — Prostitution Offenses — Promoting prostitution in the third degree Date: 10 Jun 2016 TEXT PDF Current through 2016 New York Laws, Chapters 1 to 237 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. N.Y. Penal Law § 230.25 Amended by New York Laws 2015, ch. 368,Sec. 21, eff. 1/19/2016.