Lawrence Taylor was arrested early Thursday morning and has been charged with third-degree rape and soliciting prostitution in a case involving a 16-year-old girl at a hotel in Rockland County, N.Y., according to the authorities. Taylor was taken into custody after the police were told that the girl had been brought to Taylor’s hotel room by a man who faces charges in the case, said Christopher P. St. Lawrence, the town supervisor of Ramapo, N.Y. He said the Ramapo police went to Taylor’s room at the Holiday Inn Suffern, in Montebello, and arrested him without incident just before 4 a.m. St. Lawrence said at a news conference that Taylor paid $300 for the encounter.

Taylor faces a maximum of one year in prison on the solicitation charge, a misdemeanor. The maximum sentence for third-degree rape, a felony, is four years.

Taylor was released after posting a $75,000 bond. He left the courtroom with Mark Lepselter, who said he was a friend and business associate.

The girl had facial injuries, including a black eye, but the Ramapo police said that Taylor told them she had those injuries when she came to his room. He is not suspected in that assault, the Ramapo police said.