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N.Y. Penal Law § 240.75 Aggravated family offense
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§ 240.75 Aggravated family offense. 1. A person is guilty of aggravated family offense when he or she commits a misdemeanor defined in subdivision two of this section as a specified offense and he or she has been convicted of one or more specified offenses within the immediately …
N.Y. Penal Law § 240.76 Directing a laser at an aircraft in the second degree
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§ 240.76 Directing a laser at an aircraft in the second degree. A person is guilty of directing a laser at an aircraft in the second degree when, with intent to disrupt safe air travel, he or she directs the beam of a laser: 1. onto a specific aircraft intending to thereby disrup…
N.Y. Penal Law § 240.77 Directing a laser at an aircraft in the first degree
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§ 240.77 Directing a laser at an aircraft in the first degree. A person is guilty of directing a laser at an aircraft in the first degree when he or she commits the crime of directing a laser at an aircraft in the second degree in violation of section 240.76 of this article and t…
N.Y. Penal Law § 240.78 Making a threat of mass harm
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§ 240.78 Making a threat of mass harm. 1. A person is guilty of making a threat of mass harm when with the intent to intimidate a group of people or to create public alarm, such person threatens to inflict or cause to be inflicted, serious physical injury or death at a school, pl…
N.Y. Penal Law § 240.79 Aggravated threat of mass harm
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§ 240.79 Aggravated threat of mass harm. 1. A person is guilty of aggravated threat of mass harm when such person engages in conduct as defined in section 240.78 of this article and has made any overt act in furtherance of the commission of such crime. 2. For purposes of this sec…
N.Y. Penal Law § 241.00 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant; definition of terms
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§ 241.00 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant; definition of terms. As used in this article: 1. "Rent regulated tenant" shall mean a person occupying a housing accommodation or any lawful successor to the tenancy which is subject to the regulations and control of residential ren…
N.Y. Penal Law § 241.02 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree
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§ 241.02 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree. An owner is guilty of harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree when, with intent to induce a rent regulated tenant to vacate a housing accommodation, such owner intentionally engages in a cours…
N.Y. Penal Law § 241.05 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the first degree
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§ 241.05 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the first degree. An owner is guilty of harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the first degree when: 1. With intent to induce a rent regulated tenant to vacate a housing accommodation, such owner: (a) With intent to cause physi…
N.Y. Penal Law § 241.07 Aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant
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§ 241.07 Aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant. An owner is guilty of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant when: 1. With intent to induce three or more rent regulated tenants occupying different housing accommodations in two or more residential buildings to…
N.Y. Penal Law § 242.00 Definitions
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§ 242.00 Definitions. For purposes of this article: 1. "Service animal" shall mean any animal that has been partnered with a person who has a disability and has been trained or is being trained, by a qualified person, to aid or guide a person with a disability. 2. "Disability" sh…
N.Y. Penal Law § 242.05 Interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal
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§ 242.05 Interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal. A person is guilty of interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal when he or she commits an act with intent to and which does make it impractical, dangerous or impossible for a service animal …
N.Y. Penal Law § 242.10 Harming a service animal in the second degree
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§ 242.10 Harming a service animal in the second degree. A person is guilty of harming a service animal in the second degree when, with the intent to do so, he or she causes physical injury, or causes such injury that results in the death, of a service animal. Harming a service an…
N.Y. Penal Law § 242.15 Harming a service animal in the first degree
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§ 242.15 Harming a service animal in the first degree. A person is guilty of harming a service animal in the first degree when, he or she commits the crime of harming a service animal in the second degree, and has been convicted of harming a service animal in the first or second …
N.Y. Penal Law § 245.00 Public lewdness
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§ 245.00 Public lewdness. A person is guilty of public lewdness when he or she intentionally exposes the private or intimate parts of his or her body in a lewd manner or commits any other lewd act: (a) in a public place, or (b) (i) in private premises under circumstances in which…
N.Y. Penal Law § 245.01 Exposure of a person
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§ 245.01 Exposure of a person. A person is guilty of exposure if he appears in a public place in such a manner that the private or intimate parts of his body are unclothed or exposed. For purposes of this section, the private or intimate parts of a female person shall include tha…
N.Y. Penal Law § 245.02 Promoting the exposure of a person
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§ 245.02 Promoting the exposure of a person. A person is guilty of promoting the exposure of a person when he knowingly conducts, maintains, owns, manages, operates or furnishes any public premise or place where a person in a public place appears in such a manner that the private…
N.Y. Penal Law § 245.03 Public lewdness in the first degree
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§ 245.03 Public lewdness in the first degree. A person is guilty of public lewdness in the first degree when: 1. being nineteen years of age or older and intending to be observed by a person less than sixteen years of age in a place described in subdivision (a) or (b) of section …
N.Y. Penal Law § 245.05 Offensive exhibition
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§ 245.05 Offensive exhibition. A person is guilty of offensive exhibition when he knowingly produces, operates, manages or furnishes premises for, or in any way promotes or participates in, an exhibition in the nature of public entertainment or amusement in which: 1. A person com…
N.Y. Penal Law § 245.10 Public display of offensive sexual material; definitions of terms
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§ 245.10 Public display of offensive sexual material; definitions of terms. The following definitions are applicable to section 245.11: 1. "Nudity" means the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the showing…
N.Y. Penal Law § 245.11 Public display of offensive sexual material
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§ 245.11 Public display of offensive sexual material. A person is guilty of public display of offensive sexual material when, with knowledge of its character and content, he displays or permits to be displayed in or on any window, showcase, newsstand, display rack, wall, door, bi…
N.Y. Penal Law § 245.15 Unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image
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§ 245.15 Unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image. 1. A person is guilty of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image when: (a) with intent to cause harm to the emotional, financial or physical welfare of another person, they intentionally disse…
N.Y. Penal Law § 25.00 Defenses; burden of proof
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§ 25.00 Defenses; burden of proof. 1. When a "defense," other than an "affirmative defense," defined by statute is raised at a trial, the people have the burden of disproving such defense beyond a reasonable doubt. 2. When a defense declared by statute to be an "affirmative defen…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.00 Eavesdropping; definitions of terms
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§ 250.00 Eavesdropping; definitions of terms. The following definitions are applicable to this article: 1. "Wiretapping" means the intentional overhearing or recording of a telephonic or telegraphic communication by a person other than a sender or receiver thereof, without the co…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.05 Eavesdropping
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§ 250.05 Eavesdropping. A person is guilty of eavesdropping when he unlawfully engages in wiretapping, mechanical overhearing of a conversation, or intercepting or accessing of an electronic communication. Eavesdropping is a class E felony.
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.10 Possession of eavesdropping devices
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§ 250.10 Possession of eavesdropping devices. A person is guilty of possession of eavesdropping devices when, under circumstances evincing an intent to use or to permit the same to be used in violation of section 250.05, he possesses any instrument, device or equipment designed f…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.15 Failure to report wiretapping
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§ 250.15 Failure to report wiretapping. A telephone or telegraph corporation is guilty of failure to report wiretapping when, having knowledge of the occurrence of unlawful wiretapping, it does not report such matter to an appropriate law enforcement officer or agency. Failure to…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.20 Divulging an eavesdropping warrant
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§ 250.20 Divulging an eavesdropping warrant. A person is guilty of divulging an eavesdropping warrant when, possessing information concerning the existence or content of an eavesdropping warrant issued pursuant to article seven hundred of the criminal procedure law, or concerning…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.25 Tampering with private communications
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§ 250.25 Tampering with private communications. A person is guilty of tampering with private communications when: 1. Knowing that he does not have the consent of the sender or receiver, he opens or reads a sealed letter or other sealed private communication; or 2. Knowing that a …
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.30 Unlawfully obtaining communications information
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§ 250.30 Unlawfully obtaining communications information. A person is guilty of unlawfully obtaining communications information when, knowing that he does not have the authorization of a telephone or telegraph corporation, he obtains or attempts to obtain, by deception, stealth o…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.35 Failing to report criminal communications
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§ 250.35 Failing to report criminal communications. 1. It shall be the duty of a telephone or telegraph corporation, or an entity operating an electronic communications service, and of any employee, officer or representative thereof having knowledge that the facilities of such co…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.40 Unlawful surveillance; definitions
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§ 250.40 Unlawful surveillance; definitions. The following definitions shall apply to sections 250.45, 250.50, 250.55 and 250.60 of this article: 1. "Place and time when a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy" means a place and time when a reasonable person would believ…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.45 Unlawful surveillance in the second degree
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§ 250.45 Unlawful surveillance in the second degree. A person is guilty of unlawful surveillance in the second degree when: 1. For his or her own, or another person's amusement, entertainment, or profit, or for the purpose of degrading or abusing a person, he or she intentionally…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.50 Unlawful surveillance in the first degree
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§ 250.50 Unlawful surveillance in the first degree. A person is guilty of unlawful surveillance in the first degree when he or she commits the crime of unlawful surveillance in the second degree and has been previously convicted within the past ten years of unlawful surveillance …
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.55 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree
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§ 250.55 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree. A person is guilty of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree when he or she, with knowledge of the unlawful conduct by which an image or images of the sexual or other inti…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.60 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the first degree
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§ 250.60 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the first degree. A person is guilty of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the first degree when: 1. He or she, with knowledge of the unlawful conduct by which an image or images of the sexual or other in…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.65 Additional provisions
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§ 250.65 Additional provisions. 1. The provisions of sections 250.45, 250.50, 250.55 and 250.60 of this article do not apply with respect to any: (a) law enforcement personnel engaged in the conduct of their authorized duties; (b) security system wherein a written notice is consp…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.70 Unlawful dissemination of a personal image; definitions, application
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§ 250.70 Unlawful dissemination of a personal image; definitions, application. 1. The following definitions shall apply to section 250.71 of this article: (a) "broadcast" means electronically transmitting a visual image with the intent that it be viewed by a person; (b) "dissemin…
N.Y. Penal Law § 250.71 Unlawful dissemination of a personal image
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§ 250.71 Unlawful dissemination of a personal image. A person is guilty of unlawful dissemination of a personal image when, with the intent of degrading or abusing a person who has been the victim of a crime described in title H of this part, or otherwise causing harm to the emot…
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.00 Unlawfully solemnizing a marriage
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§ 255.00 Unlawfully solemnizing a marriage. A person is guilty of unlawfully solemnizing a marriage when: 1. Knowing that he is not authorized by the laws of this state to do so, he performs a marriage ceremony or presumes to solemnize a marriage; or 2. Being authorized by the la…
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.05 Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree
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§ 255.05 Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree. A person is guilty of unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree when, not being a judicial officer authorized to issue decrees of divorce or annulment, he issues a written instrument reciting or certifying that he or some other purp…
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.10 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license
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§ 255.10 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license. A person is guilty of unlawfully procuring a marriage license when he procures a license to marry another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse. Unlawfully procuring a marriage licen…
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.15 Bigamy
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§ 255.15 Bigamy. A person is guilty of bigamy when he contracts or purports to contract a marriage with another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse. Bigamy is a class E felony.
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.20 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery: defense
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§ 255.20 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery: defense. In any prosecution for unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, or adultery, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant acted under a reasonable belief that both he and the other person to t…
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.25 Incest in the third degree
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§ 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…
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.26 Incest in the second degree
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§ 255.26 Incest in the second degree. A person is guilty of incest in the second degree when he or she commits the crime of rape in the second degree, as defined in section 130.30 of this part, or a crime formerly defined in section 130.45 of this part, against a person whom he o…
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.27 Incest in the first degree
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§ 255.27 Incest in the first degree. A person is guilty of incest in the first degree when he or she commits the crime of rape in the first degree, as defined in paragraph (c) or (d) of subdivision one, paragraph (c) or (d) of subdivision two or paragraph (c) or (d) of subdivisio…
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.30 Adultery and incest; corroboration
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§ 255.30 Adultery and incest; corroboration. 1. A person shall not be convicted of adultery or of an attempt to commit adultery solely upon the testimony of the other party to the adulterous act or attempted act, unsupported by other evidence tending to establish that the defenda…
N.Y. Penal Law § 260.00 Abandonment of a child
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§ 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…
N.Y. Penal Law § 260.05 Non-support of a child in the second degree
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§ 260.05 Non-support of a child in the second degree. A person is guilty of non-support of a child when: 1. being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the care or custody of a child less than sixteen years old, he or she fails or refuses without lawful excuse t…
N.Y. Penal Law § 260.06 Non-support of a child in the first degree
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§ 260.06 Non-support of a child in the first degree. A person is guilty of non-support of a child in the first degree when: 1. (a) being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the care or custody of a child less than sixteen years old, he or she fails or refuses …