ALBANY – Governor David Paterson has signed a measure removing from the state Penal Law provisions that had been declared unconstitutional by the courts decades ago.
Lawmakers repealed subdivisions of the state loitering law, Penal Law §240.35, that prohibited panhandling, engaging in or soliciting certain sex acts and sleeping in a transportation facility without a satisfactory explanation.
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