Title PEN, Penal

§ 240.75 Aggravated family offense.\n 1. A person is guilty of aggravated family offense when he or she\ncommits a misdemeanor defined in subdivision two of this section as a\nspecified offense and he or she has been convicted of one or more\nspecified offenses within the immedia…

§ 240.76 Directing a laser at an aircraft in the second degree.\n A person is guilty of directing a laser at an aircraft in the second\ndegree when, with intent to disrupt safe air travel, he or she directs\nthe beam of a laser:\n 1. onto a specific aircraft intending to thereby …

§ 240.77 Directing a laser at an aircraft in the first degree.\n A person is guilty of directing a laser at an aircraft in the first\ndegree when he or she commits the crime of directing a laser at an\naircraft in the second degree in violation of section 240.76 of this\narticle …

§ 240.78 Making a threat of mass harm.\n 1. A person is guilty of making a threat of mass harm when with the\nintent to intimidate a group of people or to create public alarm, such\nperson threatens to inflict or cause to be inflicted, serious physical\ninjury or death at a schoo…

§ 240.79 Aggravated threat of mass harm.\n 1. A person is guilty of aggravated threat of mass harm when such\nperson engages in conduct as defined in section 240.78 of this article\nand has made any overt act in furtherance of the commission of such\ncrime.\n 2. For purposes of t…

§ 241.00 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant; definition of terms.\n As used in this article:\n 1. "Rent regulated tenant" shall mean a person occupying a housing\naccommodation or any lawful successor to the tenancy which is subject to\nthe regulations and control of residenti…

§ 241.02 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree.\n An owner is guilty of harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the\nsecond degree when, with intent to induce a rent regulated tenant to\nvacate a housing accommodation, such owner intentionally engages in a\n…

§ 241.05 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the first degree.\n An owner is guilty of harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the\nfirst degree when:\n 1. With intent to induce a rent regulated tenant to vacate a housing\naccommodation, such owner:\n (a) With intent to cau…

§ 241.07 Aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant.\n An owner is guilty of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant\nwhen:\n 1. With intent to induce three or more rent regulated tenants\noccupying different housing accommodations in two or more residential\nbuild…

§ 242.00 Definitions.\n For purposes of this article:\n 1. "Service animal" shall mean any animal that has been partnered with\na person who has a disability and has been trained or is being trained,\nby a qualified person, to aid or guide a person with a disability.\n 2. "Disabi…

§ 242.05 Interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal.\n A person is guilty of interference, harassment or intimidation of a\nservice animal when he or she commits an act with intent to and which\ndoes make it impractical, dangerous or impossible for a service ani…

§ 242.10 Harming a service animal in the second degree.\n A person is guilty of harming a service animal in the second degree\nwhen, with the intent to do so, he or she causes physical injury, or\ncauses such injury that results in the death, of a service animal.\n Harming a serv…

§ 242.15 Harming a service animal in the first degree.\n A person is guilty of harming a service animal in the first degree\nwhen, he or she commits the crime of harming a service animal in the\nsecond degree, and has been convicted of harming a service animal in the\nfirst or se…

§ 245.00 Public lewdness.\n A person is guilty of public lewdness when he or she intentionally\nexposes the private or intimate parts of his or her body in a lewd\nmanner or commits any other lewd act: (a) in a public place, or (b) (i)\nin private premises under circumstances in …

§ 245.01 Exposure of a person.\n A person is guilty of exposure if he appears in a public place in such\na manner that the private or intimate parts of his body are unclothed or\nexposed. For purposes of this section, the private or intimate parts of\na female person shall includ…

§ 245.02 Promoting the exposure of a person.\n A person is guilty of promoting the exposure of a person when he\nknowingly conducts, maintains, owns, manages, operates or furnishes any\npublic premise or place where a person in a public place appears in such\na manner that the pr…

§ 245.03 Public lewdness in the first degree.\n A person is guilty of public lewdness in the first degree when:\n 1. being nineteen years of age or older and intending to be observed\nby a person less than sixteen years of age in a place described in\nsubdivision (a) or (b) of se…

§ 245.05 Offensive exhibition.\n A person is guilty of offensive exhibition when he knowingly produces,\noperates, manages or furnishes premises for, or in any way promotes or\nparticipates in, an exhibition in the nature of public entertainment or\namusement in which:\n 1. A per…

§ 245.10 Public display of offensive sexual material; definitions of\n terms.\n The following definitions are applicable to section 245.11:\n 1. "Nudity" means the showing of the human male or female genitals,\npubic area or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the\…

§ 245.11 Public display of offensive sexual material.\n A person is guilty of public display of offensive sexual material\nwhen, with knowledge of its character and content, he displays or\npermits to be displayed in or on any window, showcase, newsstand,\ndisplay rack, wall, doo…

§ 245.15 Unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image.\n 1. A person is guilty of unlawful dissemination or publication of an\nintimate image when:\n (a) with intent to cause harm to the emotional, financial or physical\nwelfare of another person, they intentionally…

§ 25.00 Defenses; burden of proof.\n 1. When a "defense," other than an "affirmative defense," defined by\nstatute is raised at a trial, the people have the burden of disproving\nsuch defense beyond a reasonable doubt.\n 2. When a defense declared by statute to be an "affirmative…

§ 250.00 Eavesdropping; definitions of terms.\n The following definitions are applicable to this article:\n 1. "Wiretapping" means the intentional overhearing or recording of a\ntelephonic or telegraphic communication by a person other than a sender\nor receiver thereof, without …

§ 250.05 Eavesdropping.\n A person is guilty of eavesdropping when he unlawfully engages in\nwiretapping, mechanical overhearing of a conversation, or intercepting\nor accessing of an electronic communication.\n Eavesdropping is a class E felony.\n

§ 250.10 Possession of eavesdropping devices.\n A person is guilty of possession of eavesdropping devices when, under\ncircumstances evincing an intent to use or to permit the same to be used\nin violation of section 250.05, he possesses any instrument, device or\nequipment desig…

§ 250.15 Failure to report wiretapping.\n A telephone or telegraph corporation is guilty of failure to report\nwiretapping when, having knowledge of the occurrence of unlawful\nwiretapping, it does not report such matter to an appropriate law\nenforcement officer or agency.\n Fai…

§ 250.20 Divulging an eavesdropping warrant.\n A person is guilty of divulging an eavesdropping warrant when,\npossessing information concerning the existence or content of an\neavesdropping warrant issued pursuant to article seven hundred of the\ncriminal procedure law, or conce…

§ 250.25 Tampering with private communications.\n A person is guilty of tampering with private communications when:\n 1. Knowing that he does not have the consent of the sender or\nreceiver, he opens or reads a sealed letter or other sealed private\ncommunication; or\n 2. Knowing…

§ 250.30 Unlawfully obtaining communications information.\n A person is guilty of unlawfully obtaining communications information\nwhen, knowing that he does not have the authorization of a telephone or\ntelegraph corporation, he obtains or attempts to obtain, by deception,\nstea…

§ 250.35 Failing to report criminal communications.\n 1. It shall be the duty of a telephone or telegraph corporation, or an\nentity operating an electronic communications service, and of any\nemployee, officer or representative thereof having knowledge that the\nfacilities of su…

§ 250.40 Unlawful surveillance; definitions.\n The following definitions shall apply to sections 250.45, 250.50,\n250.55 and 250.60 of this article:\n 1. "Place and time when a person has a reasonable expectation of\nprivacy" means a place and time when a reasonable person would …

§ 250.45 Unlawful surveillance in the second degree.\n A person is guilty of unlawful surveillance in the second degree when:\n 1. For his or her own, or another person's amusement, entertainment,\nor profit, or for the purpose of degrading or abusing a person, he or\nshe intenti…

§ 250.50 Unlawful surveillance in the first degree.\n A person is guilty of unlawful surveillance in the first degree when\nhe or she commits the crime of unlawful surveillance in the second\ndegree and has been previously convicted within the past ten years of\nunlawful surveill…

§ 250.55 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second\n degree.\n A person is guilty of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image\nin the second degree when he or she, with knowledge of the unlawful\nconduct by which an image or images of the sexual or othe…

§ 250.60 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the first\n degree.\n A person is guilty of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image\nin the first degree when:\n 1. He or she, with knowledge of the unlawful conduct by which an image\nor images of the sexual or …

§ 250.65 Additional provisions.\n 1. The provisions of sections 250.45, 250.50, 250.55 and 250.60 of\nthis article do not apply with respect to any: (a) law enforcement\npersonnel engaged in the conduct of their authorized duties; (b)\nsecurity system wherein a written notice is …

§ 250.70 Unlawful dissemination of a personal image; definitions,\n application.\n 1. The following definitions shall apply to section 250.71 of this\narticle:\n (a) "broadcast" means electronically transmitting a visual image with\nthe intent that it be viewed by a person;\n (b)…

§ 250.71 Unlawful dissemination of a personal image.\n A person is guilty of unlawful dissemination of a personal image when,\nwith the intent of degrading or abusing a person who has been the victim\nof a crime described in title H of this part, or otherwise causing harm\nto the…

§ 255.00 Unlawfully solemnizing a marriage.\n A person is guilty of unlawfully solemnizing a marriage when:\n 1. Knowing that he is not authorized by the laws of this state to do\nso, he performs a marriage ceremony or presumes to solemnize a marriage;\nor\n 2. Being authorized b…

§ 255.05 Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree.\n A person is guilty of unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree when,\nnot being a judicial officer authorized to issue decrees of divorce or\nannulment, he issues a written instrument reciting or certifying that he\nor some other…

§ 255.10 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license.\n A person is guilty of unlawfully procuring a marriage license when he\nprocures a license to marry another person at a time when he has a\nliving spouse, or the other person has a living spouse.\n Unlawfully procuring a marriage…

§ 255.15 Bigamy.\n A person is guilty of bigamy when he contracts or purports to contract\na marriage with another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or\nthe other person has a living spouse.\n Bigamy is a class E felony.\n

§ 255.20 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery:\n defense.\n In any prosecution for unlawfully procuring a marriage license,\nbigamy, or adultery, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant\nacted under a reasonable belief that both he and the other perso…

§ 255.25 Incest in the third degree.\n A person is guilty of incest in the third degree when he or she\nmarries or engages in vaginal sexual contact, oral sexual contact or\nanal sexual contact with a person whom he or she knows to be related to\nhim or her, whether through marri…

§ 255.26 Incest in the second degree.\n A person is guilty of incest in the second degree when he or she\ncommits the crime of rape in the second degree, as defined in section\n130.30 of this part, or a crime formerly defined in section 130.45 of\nthis part, against a person whom…

§ 255.27 Incest in the first degree.\n A person is guilty of incest in the first degree when he or she\ncommits the crime of rape in the first degree, as defined in paragraph\n(c) or (d) of subdivision one, paragraph (c) or (d) of subdivision two\nor paragraph (c) or (d) of subdi…

§ 255.30 Adultery and incest; corroboration.\n 1. A person shall not be convicted of adultery or of an attempt to\ncommit adultery solely upon the testimony of the other party to the\nadulterous act or attempted act, unsupported by other evidence tending\nto establish that the de…

§ 260.00 Abandonment of a child.\n 1. A person is guilty of abandonment of a child when, being a parent,\nguardian or other person legally charged with the care or custody of a\nchild less than fourteen years old, he or she deserts such child in any\nplace with intent to wholly a…

§ 260.05 Non-support of a child in the second degree.\n A person is guilty of non-support of a child when:\n 1. being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the\ncare or custody of a child less than sixteen years old, he or she fails\nor refuses without lawful ex…

§ 260.06 Non-support of a child in the first degree.\n A person is guilty of non-support of a child in the first degree when:\n 1. (a) being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with\nthe care or custody of a child less than sixteen years old, he or she\nfails or re…