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2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.48 - Disseminating a False Registered Sex Offender Notice.

§ 240.48 Disseminating a false registered sex offender notice.
A  person  is  guilty of disseminating a false registered sex offender
  notice when, knowing the information he or she disseminates or causes to
  be disseminated to be false or baseless,  such  person  disseminates  or
  causes  to  be  disseminated any notice which purports to be an official
  notice from a government agency or a law  enforcement  agency  and  such
  notice asserts that an individual is a registered sex offender.
Disseminating  a  false  registered  sex  offender notice is a class A
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.50 - Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Third Degree.

§ 240.50 Falsely reporting an incident in the third degree.
A  person  is  guilty  of  falsely  reporting an incident in the third
degree when, knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated to
be false or baseless, he or she:
1. Initiates or circulates a false report or  warning  of  an  alleged
occurrence  or impending occurrence of a crime, catastrophe or emergency
under circumstances in which it is not unlikely  that  public  alarm  or
inconvenience will result; or
2. Reports, by word or action, to an official or quasi-official agency
or   organization  having  the  function  of  dealing  with  emergencies
involving danger to life or property, an alleged occurrence or impending
occurrence of a catastrophe or emergency which did not in fact occur  or
does not in fact exist; or
3. Gratuitously reports to a law enforcement officer or agency (a) the
alleged  occurrence  of  an  offense  or  incident which did not in fact
occur; or (b)  an  allegedly  impending  occurrence  of  an  offense  or
incident  which  in fact is not about to occur; or (c) false information
relating to an actual offense or incident or to the alleged  implication
of some person therein; or
4.  Reports,  by word or action, an alleged occurrence or condition of
child abuse or maltreatment or abuse or neglect of a  vulnerable  person
which did not in fact occur or exist to:
(a) the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment, as
defined  in  title  six of article six of the social services law or the
vulnerable persons' central register as defined  in  article  eleven  of
such law, or
(b)  any  person  required to report cases of suspected child abuse or
maltreatment  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  section  four  hundred
thirteen  of  the  social  services  law or to report cases of suspected
abuse or neglect of a vulnerable person pursuant to section four hundred
ninety-one of such law, knowing that the person is  required  to  report
such  cases,  and  with  the  intent  that such an alleged occurrence be
reported to  the  statewide  central  register  or  vulnerable  persons'
central register.
Falsely  reporting  an  incident  in  the  third  degree  is a class A
misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.55 - Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Second Degree.

§ 240.55 Falsely reporting an incident in the second degree.
A  person  is  guilty  of  falsely reporting an incident in the second
  degree when, knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated to
  be false or baseless, he or she:
1. Initiates or circulates a false report or  warning  of  an  alleged
  occurrence  or impending occurrence of a fire, explosion, or the release
  of a hazardous substance under circumstances in which it is not unlikely
  that public alarm or inconvenience will result;
2. Reports, by word or  action,  to  any  official  or  quasi-official
  agency  or  organization having the function of dealing with emergencies
  involving danger to life or property, an alleged occurrence or impending
  occurrence of a fire, explosion, or the release of a hazardous substance
  which did not in fact occur or does not in fact exist; or
3. Knowing the information reported,  conveyed  or  circulated  to  be
  false  or  baseless and under circumstances in which it is likely public
  alarm or inconvenience will result, he or she initiates or circulates  a
  report or warning of an alleged occurrence or an impending occurrence of
  a  fire,  an explosion, or the release of a hazardous substance upon any
  private premises.
Falsely reporting an incident in  the  second  degree  is  a  class  E
  felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.61 - Placing a False Bomb or Hazardous Substance in the Second Degree.

§ 240.61 Placing  a  false  bomb  or  hazardous  substance in the second
degree.
A person is guilty of placing a false bomb or hazardous  substance  in
  the  second  degree  when  he or she places, or causes to be placed, any
  device  or  object  that  by  its  design,  construction,   content   or
  characteristics appears to be or to contain, a bomb, destructive device,
  explosive  or  hazardous  substance,  but  is,  in  fact, an inoperative
  facsimile or imitation of such a bomb, destructive device, explosive  or
  hazardous  substance  and  which  he or she knows, intends or reasonably
  believes will appear to be a  bomb,  destructive  device,  explosive  or
  hazardous  substance  under circumstances in which it is likely to cause
  public alarm or inconvenience.
Placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the second degree is  a
  class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.62 - Placing a False Bomb or Hazardous Substance in the First Degree.

§ 240.62 Placing  a  false  bomb  or  hazardous  substance  in the first
degree.
A person is guilty of placing a false bomb or hazardous  substance  in
  the  first  degree  when he or she places, or causes to be placed, in or
  upon school grounds, a public building, or a public place any device  or
  object  that  by  its  design,  construction, content or characteristics
  appears to be or to contain, a bomb, destructive  device,  explosive  or
  hazardous  substance,  but  is,  in  fact,  an  inoperative facsimile or
  imitation of such a bomb, destructive  device,  explosive  or  hazardous
  substance and which he or she knows, intends or reasonably believes will
  appear  to  be  a  bomb,  destructive  device,  explosive  or  hazardous
  substance under circumstances in which it  is  likely  to  cause  public
  alarm  or  inconvenience.  For purposes of this section the term "public
  building" shall have the meaning set forth in section four  hundred  one
  of the executive law.
Placing  a  false bomb or hazardous substance in the first degree is a
  class D felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.63 - Placing a False Bomb or Hazardous Substance in a Sports Stadium or Arena, Mass Transportation Facility or Enclosed Shopping Mall.

§ 240.63 Placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in a sports stadium
or  arena,  mass transportation facility or enclosed shopping
mall.
A person is guilty of placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in a
  sports stadium  or  arena,  mass  transportation  facility  or  enclosed
  shopping mall when he or she places, or causes to be placed, in a sports
  stadium  or  arena,  mass  transportation  facility or enclosed shopping
  mall, in which it is likely that persons  are  present,  any  device  or
  object  that  by  its  design,  construction, content or characteristics
  appears to be or to contain a bomb,  destructive  device,  explosive  or
  hazardous  substance,  but  is,  in  fact,  an  inoperative facsimile or
  imitation of such a bomb, destructive  device,  explosive  or  hazardous
  substance and which he or she knows, intends or reasonably believes will
  appear  to  be  a  bomb,  destructive  device,  explosive  or  hazardous
  substance under circumstances in which it  is  likely  to  cause  public
  alarm or inconvenience. For purposes of this section, "sports stadium or
  arena,  mass  transportation  facility  or enclosed shopping mall" shall
  have its natural meaning.
Placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in  a  sports  stadium  or
  arena, mass transportation facility or enclosed shopping mall is a class
  D felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.65 - Unlawful Prevention of Public Access to Records.

§ 240.65 Unlawful prevention of public access to records.
A  person is guilty of unlawful prevention of public access to records
  when, with intent to prevent the public inspection of a record  pursuant
  to  article  six  of  the  public officers law, he willfully conceals or
  destroys any such record.
Unlawful prevention of public access to records is a violation.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.71 - Criminal Interference With Health Care Services or Religious Worship in the First Degree.

§  240.71  Criminal  interference with health care services or religious
worship in the first degree.
A person is guilty of criminal interference with health care  services
  or  religious  worship  in  the  first degree when he or she commits the
  crime of criminal interference with health care  services  or  religious
  worship  in  the  second degree and has been previously convicted of the
  crime of criminal interference with health care  services  or  religious
  worship  in  the  first or second degree or aggravated interference with
  health care services in the first or second degree.
Criminal interference with health care services or  religious  worship
  in the first degree is a class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.72 - Aggravated Interference With Health Care Services in the Second Degree.

§ 240.72 Aggravated interference with health care services in the second
degree.
A person is guilty of the crime of aggravated interference with health
  care  services  in the second degree when he or she commits the crime of
  criminal interference with health care services or religious worship  in
  violation  of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section 240.70 of this
  article and thereby causes physical injury to such other person who  was
  obtaining  or  providing,  or  was assisting another person to obtain or
  provide reproductive health services.
Aggravated interference with health care services in the second degree
  is a class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.73 - Aggravated Interference With Health Care Services in the First Degree.

§ 240.73 Aggravated  interference with health care services in the first
degree.
A person is guilty of the crime of aggravated interference with health
  care services in the first degree when he or she commits  the  crime  of
  criminal  interference with health care services or religious worship in
  violation of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section 240.70 of  this
  article  and thereby causes serious physical injury to such other person
  who was obtaining or providing, or who was assisting another  person  to
  obtain or provide reproductive health services.
Aggravated  interference with health care services in the first degree
  is a class C felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.76 - Directing a Laser at an Aircraft in the Second Degree.

§ 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 disrupt or interfere
with such aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction  of  the  United
States; or
2.  in  the  immediate vicinity of an aircraft in the special aircraft
jurisdiction of the United States, and:
(a) the calculated or measured beam irradiance on the aircraft, or  in
the  immediate  vicinity  of the aircraft, exceeds limits set by the FAA
for the FAA-specified laser flight zone (normal, sensitive, critical, or
laser-free) where the aircraft was located;  and  (b)  a  pilot  in  the
illuminated aircraft files a laser incident report with the FAA.
3. As used in this section:
(a) the term "laser" shall mean any device designed or used to amplify
electromagnetic radiation by stimulated emission that emits a beam; and
(b) the term "FAA" shall mean the Federal Aviation Administration.
4.  This  section  does  not  prohibit  directing  a  laser beam at an
aircraft, or in the immediate vicinity of an aircraft, by:
(a)  an  authorized  individual  in  the  conduct  of   research   and
development   or   flight  test  operations  conducted  by  an  aircraft
manufacturer, the FAA, or any other person  authorized  by  the  FAA  to
conduct such research and development or flight test operations; or
(b)  members or elements of the United States department of defense or
the United States department of homeland security acting in an  official
capacity  for  the purpose of research, development, operations, testing
or training; or
(c) an individual in an emergency situation using a laser  to  attract
the attention of an aircraft for bona fide rescue purposes; or
(d)  an  individual  whose laser operations have been submitted to and
reviewed by the FAA, when:
(i) the FAA has issued a letter not objecting to the laser use; and
(ii) the laser is operated in conformity with the FAA submission.
Directing a laser at an aircraft is a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.77 - Directing a Laser at an Aircraft in the First Degree.

§ 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 thereby causes a  significant  change  of  course  or  other
  serious  disruption to the safe travel of an aircraft that threatens the
  physical safety of the aircraft's passengers or crew.
Directing a laser at an aircraft in the first  degree  is  a  class  E
  felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.78 - Making a Threat of Mass Harm.

§ 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,  place  of  worship,  business,  government
  building,  or  other  place of assembly, and thereby causes a reasonable
  expectation or fear of serious physical injury or death, or  causes  the
  evacuation  or  lockdown  of  a  school,  place  of  worship,  business,
  government building, or other place of assembly.
2. It shall be no defense to a prosecution pursuant  to  this  section
  that  the  defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing
  the conduct threatened.
Making a threat of mass harm is a class B misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.79 - Aggravated Threat of Mass Harm.

§ 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 section, an overt act  may  include  making  a
  plan  to  carry out such threat, compiling a list of targets, possession
  of any weapon or device that can be used to carry out  such  threat,  or
  other preparatory action.
Aggravated threat of mass harm is a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 241 - Harassment of Rent Regulated Tenants › 241.00 - Harassment of a Rent Regulated Tenant; Definition of Terms.

§ 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 rents and evictions  pursuant
  to  the  emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing
  rent control act,  the  emergency  tenant  protection  act  of  nineteen
  seventy-four,  the  New York city rent and rehabilitation law or the New
  York city rent stabilization law of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-nine,  and
  such  person  is  either a party to a lease or rental agreement for such
  housing accommodation, a statutory  tenant  or  a  person  who  lawfully
  occupies such housing accommodation with such party to a lease or rental
  agreement  or  with  such  statutory  tenant.  The  definition  of "rent
  regulated tenant" as used in this subdivision shall be  applicable  only
  to  the  provisions  of  this article and shall not be applicable to any
  other provision of law.
2. "Housing accommodations" shall mean  housing  accommodations  which
  are  subject  to  the  regulations  and control of residential rents and
  evictions pursuant to the emergency housing rent control law, the  local
  emergency  housing rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act
  of nineteen seventy-four, the New York city rent and rehabilitation  law
  or  the  New  York  city  rent  stabilization  law  of  nineteen hundred
  sixty-nine.
3. "Owner" shall mean  an  owner,  lessor,  sublessor,  assignee,  net
  lessee,  or  a  proprietary  lessee  of  a  housing  accommodation  in a
  structure or premises owned by a cooperative corporation or association,
  or an owner of a condominium unit or the  sponsor  of  such  cooperative
  corporation  or  association  or  condominium  development, or any other
  person or entity receiving or entitled to receive rent for  the  use  or
  occupation  of  any  housing accommodation, or an agent of or any person
  acting on behalf of any of the foregoing.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 241 - Harassment of Rent Regulated Tenants › 241.02 - Harassment of a Rent Regulated Tenant in the Second Degree.

§ 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
  course of conduct that:
1. impairs the habitability of a housing accommodation; or
2. creates or maintains a condition  which  endangers  the  safety  or
  health of the dwelling's tenant; or
3.  is  reasonably  likely  to  interfere  with  or  disturb, and does
  interfere with or disturb, the comfort, repose, peace or quiet  of  such
  rent  regulated  tenant  in his or her use and occupancy of such housing
  accommodation  including,  but  not  limited  to,  the  interruption  or
  discontinuance  of  essential  services. The good faith commencement and
  pursuit of a lawful eviction action by an owner against a rent regulated
  tenant in a court  of  competent  jurisdiction  shall  not,  by  itself,
  constitute a "course of conduct" in violation of this subdivision.
Harassment  of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree is a class
  A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 241 - Harassment of Rent Regulated Tenants › 241.05 - Harassment of a Rent Regulated Tenant in the First Degree.

§ 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 physical injury to such tenant, causes such
injury to such tenant or to a third person; or
(b) Recklessly causes physical injury to such tenant  or  to  a  third
person; or
2.  With intent to induce two or more rent regulated tenants occupying
different housing accommodations to vacate such housing  accommodations,
such  owner  intentionally  engages  in  a  systematic ongoing course of
conduct that:
(a) impairs the habitability of such housing accommodations; or
(b) creates or maintains a condition which  endangers  the  safety  or
health of one or more of the dwellings' rent regulated tenants; or
(c)  is  reasonably  likely  to  interfere  with  or disturb, and does
interfere with or disturb, the comfort, repose, peace or quiet of one or
more of such rent regulated tenants in their use and occupancy  of  such
housing  accommodations  including, but not limited to, the interruption
or discontinuance of essential services; or
3. Such owner commits the crime of  harassment  of  a  rent  regulated
tenant in the second degree as defined in section 241.02 of this article
and  has  previously  been  convicted within the preceding five years of
such crime or the crime of harassment of a rent regulated tenant in  the
first degree.
The good faith commencement and pursuit of a lawful eviction action by
an  owner  against  a  rent  regulated  tenant  in  a court of competent
jurisdiction shall not, by  itself,  constitute  a  "systematic  ongoing
course  of  conduct" in violation of paragraph (c) of subdivision two of
this section.
Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the first degree is a class E
felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 242 - Offenses Against Service Animals and Handlers › 242.00 - Definitions.

§ 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" shall have the same meaning as provided in section two
  hundred ninety-two of the executive law.
3. "Handler" shall mean a disabled person using a service animal.
4. "Formal training program" or  "certified  trainer"  shall  mean  an
  institution,  group  or  individual  who has documentation and community
  recognition as a provider of service animals.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 242 - Offenses Against Service Animals and Handlers › 242.05 - Interference, Harassment or Intimidation of a Service Animal.

§ 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
  to perform its assigned responsibilities of assisting a  person  with  a
  disability.
Interference,  harassment  or  intimidation  of  a service animal is a
  class B misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 242 - Offenses Against Service Animals and Handlers › 242.10 - Harming a Service Animal in the Second Degree.

§ 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  animal  in  the  second  degree  is  a  class  A
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 242 - Offenses Against Service Animals and Handlers › 242.15 - Harming a Service Animal in the First Degree.

§ 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 degree within the prior five years.
Harming a service animal in the first degree is a class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 245 - Offenses Against Public Sensibilities › 245.00 - Public Lewdness.

§ 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 he or she  may  readily
  be  observed  from either a public place or from other private premises,
  and  with  intent  that  he  or  she  be  so  observed,  or  (ii)  while
  trespassing, as defined in section 140.05 of this part, in a dwelling as
  defined  in  subdivision  three  of  section  140.00 of this part, under
  circumstances in which he or she is observed by a lawful occupant.
Public lewdness is a class B misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 245 - Offenses Against Public Sensibilities › 245.01 - Exposure of a Person.

§ 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 that portion of the breast which is  below
  the top of the areola. This section shall not apply to the breastfeeding
  of  infants  or  to  any  person  entertaining  or performing in a play,
  exhibition, show or entertainment.
Exposure of a person is a violation.
Nothing in this section shall prevent the adoption by a city, town  or
  village  of  a  local  law  prohibiting  exposure  of a person as herein
  defined in a public place, at any time, whether or not  such  person  is
  entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition, show or entertainment.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 245 - Offenses Against Public Sensibilities › 245.02 - Promoting the Exposure of a Person.

§ 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 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 that portion of the breast which is  below
  the top of the areola. This section shall not apply to the breastfeeding
  of  infants  or  to  any  person  entertaining  or performing in a play,
  exhibition, show or entertainment.
Promoting the exposure of a person is a violation.
Nothing in this section shall prevent the adoption by a city, town  or
  village   of   a   local  law  prohibiting  the  exposure  of  a  person
  substantially as herein defined in a public place, at any time,  whether
  or  not such person is entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition,
  show or entertainment.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 245 - Offenses Against Public Sensibilities › 245.03 - Public Lewdness in the First Degree.

§ 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 245.00 of this article, he or she
  intentionally exposes the private or intimate parts of his or  her  body
  in  a lewd manner for the purpose of alarming or seriously annoying such
  person, and he or she is thereby observed by such person in such  place;
  or
2.  he  or  she  commits  the  crime of public lewdness, as defined in
  section 245.00 of this article, and within the preceding year  has  been
  convicted of an offense defined in such section 245.00 or this section.
Public lewdness in the first degree is a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 245 - Offenses Against Public Sensibilities › 245.05 - Offensive Exhibition.

§ 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 competes continuously without respite for a period of more
  than  eight  consecutive hours in a dance contest, bicycle race or other
  contest involving physical endurance; or
2. A person  is  held  up  to  ridicule  or  contempt  by  voluntarily
  submitting  to  indignities  such  as  the  throwing  of  balls or other
  articles at his head or body; or
3. A firearm is discharged  or  a  knife,  arrow  or  other  sharp  or
  dangerous instrument is thrown or propelled at or toward a person.
Offensive exhibition is a violation.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 245 - Offenses Against Public Sensibilities › 245.10 - Public Display of Offensive Sexual Material; Definitions of Terms.

§  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 of the female breast with less than a fully opaque  covering  of
  any  portion  thereof  below  the top of the nipple, or the depiction of
  covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
2. "Sexual conduct"  means  an  act  of  masturbation,  homosexuality,
  sexual  intercourse,  or  physical  contact  with  a person's clothed or
  unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female,
  breast.
3. "Sado-masochistic abuse" means flagellation or torture by or upon a
  person clad  in  undergarments,  a  mask  or  bizzare  costume,  or  the
  condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on
  the part of one so clothed.
4.  "Transportation  facility" means any conveyance, premises or place
  used for or in connection with public passenger transportation,  whether
  by  air,  railroad,  motor  vehicle  or  any  other  method. It includes
  aircraft, watercraft, railroad cars, buses, and air, boat, railroad  and
  bus terminals and stations and all appurtenances thereto.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 245 - Offenses Against Public Sensibilities › 245.11 - Public Display of Offensive Sexual Material.

§ 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,  billboard,  display  board,  viewing  screen,
moving picture screen, marquee or similar place, in such manner that the
display  is  easily  visible from or in any:  public street, sidewalk or
thoroughfare;  transportation  facility;  or  any  place  accessible  to
members  of  the  public  without  fee  or  other  limit or condition of
admission such as a  minimum  age  requirement  and  including  but  not
limited  to  schools,  places  of  amusement,  parks and playgrounds but
excluding  rooms  or  apartments  designed  for  actual  residence;  any
pictorial,  three-dimensional or other visual representation of a person
or a portion of the human body that predominantly  appeals  to  prurient
interest in sex, and that:
(a)   depicts  nudity,  or  actual  or  simulated  sexual  conduct  or
sado-masochistic abuse; or
(b) depicts or appears to depict nudity, or actual or simulated sexual
conduct or sado-masochistic abuse, with the area of the male  or  female
subject's  unclothed  or  apparently  unclothed  genitals, pubic area or
buttocks, or of the female subject's unclothed or  apparently  unclothed
breast,  obscured by a covering or mark placed or printed on or in front
of the material displayed, or obscured or altered in any other manner.
Public display of offensive sexual material is a Class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 245 - Offenses Against Public Sensibilities › 245.15 - Unlawful Dissemination or Publication of an Intimate Image.

§ 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 disseminate or publish a
still or video image depicting  such  other  person  with  one  or  more
intimate  parts  exposed  or  engaging  in  sexual  conduct with another
person, including an image created or  altered  by  digitization,  where
such  person  may reasonably be identified from the still or video image
itself or from information displayed in connection  with  the  still  or
video image; and
(b)  the  actor  knew  or reasonably should have known that the person
depicted did not consent to such dissemination or publication, including
the dissemination or publication of an image taken with the  consent  of
the  person  depicted when such person had a reasonable expectation that
the image would remain private, regardless  of  whether  the  actor  was
present when such image was taken.
2.  For  purposes  of  this section the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
(a) "intimate part" means the naked  genitals,  pubic  area,  anus  or
female nipple of the person;
(b) "disseminate" and "publish" shall have the same meaning as defined
in section 250.40 of this title;
(c)  "sexual  conduct"  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as defined in
subdivision ten of section 130.00 of this chapter; and
(d) "digitization" shall mean to alter an image in a realistic  manner
utilizing  an  image  or  images  of  a  person,  other  than the person
depicted, or computer generated images.
3. This section shall not apply to the following:
(a) the reporting of unlawful conduct;
(b) dissemination or publication of  an  intimate  image  made  during
lawful  and  common  practices  of law enforcement, legal proceedings or
medical treatment;
(c) images involving voluntary exposure  in  a  public  or  commercial
setting; or
(d)  dissemination  or  publication  of  an  intimate image made for a
legitimate public purpose.
4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit, or to enlarge,
the protections that 47 U.S.C § 230 confers on an  interactive  computer
service for content provided by another information content provider, as
such terms are defined in 47 U.S.C. § 230.
Unlawful  dissemination or publication of an intimate image is a class
A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 250 - Offenses Against the Right to Privacy › 250.05 - Eavesdropping.

§ 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.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 250 - Offenses Against the Right to Privacy › 250.10 - Possession of Eavesdropping Devices.

§ 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  for,  adapted to or commonly used in wiretapping or
  mechanical overhearing of a conversation.
Possession of eavesdropping devices is a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 250 - Offenses Against the Right to Privacy › 250.15 - Failure to Report Wiretapping.

§ 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 report wiretapping is a class B misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 250 - Offenses Against the Right to Privacy › 250.20 - Divulging an Eavesdropping Warrant.

§ 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  any  circumstances  attending  an
  application for such a warrant, he discloses such information to another
  person;  except  that  such  disclosure is not criminal or unlawful when
  permitted by section 700.65 of the criminal procedure law or  when  made
  to  a  state or federal agency specifically authorized by law to receive
  reports concerning eavesdropping warrants,  or  when  made  in  a  legal
  proceeding, or to a law enforcement officer or agency connected with the
  application for such warrant, or to a legislative committee or temporary
  state  commission,  or  to  the telephone or telegraph corporation whose
  facilities are involved,  or  to  any  entity  operating  an  electronic
  communications service whose facilities are involved.
Divulging an eavesdropping warrant is a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 250 - Offenses Against the Right to Privacy › 250.25 - Tampering With Private Communications.

§ 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 sealed letter or other sealed private communication
  has been opened or read in violation of subdivision one of this section,
  he divulges without the consent of the sender or receiver, the  contents
  of such letter or communication, in whole or in part, or a resume of any
  portion of the contents thereof; or
3.  Knowing  that  he  does  not  have  the  consent  of the sender or
  receiver, he obtains or attempts to obtain from an employee, officer  or
  representative  of  a telephone or telegraph corporation, by connivance,
  deception, intimidation or in any other manner, information with respect
  to the contents  or  nature  thereof  of  a  telephonic  or  telegraphic
  communication;  except  that  the  provisions of this subdivision do not
  apply to a law  enforcement  officer  who  obtains  information  from  a
  telephone or telegraph corporation pursuant to section 250.35; or
4.  Knowing  that  he  does  not  have  the  consent  of the sender or
  receiver,  and  being  an  employee,  officer  or  representative  of  a
  telephone  or  telegraph  corporation,  he knowingly divulges to another
  person the contents or nature thereof of  a  telephonic  or  telegraphic
  communication;  except  that  the  provisions of this subdivision do not
  apply to such person when he acts pursuant to section 250.35.
Tampering with private communications is a class B misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 250 - Offenses Against the Right to Privacy › 250.30 - Unlawfully Obtaining Communications Information.

§ 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 or in any other  manner,  from  such  corporation  or  from  any
  employee, officer or representative thereof:
1.  Information  concerning  identification  or location of any wires,
  cables, lines, terminals or other apparatus used in furnishing telephone
  or telegraph service; or
2. Information concerning a record of any communication  passing  over
  telephone or telegraph lines of any such corporation.
Unlawfully   obtaining   communications   information  is  a  class  B
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 250 - Offenses Against the Right to Privacy › 250.35 - Failing to Report Criminal Communications.

§ 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 corporation or entity are being used to conduct any
  criminal business, traffic or transaction,  to  furnish  or  attempt  to
  furnish  to  an  appropriate  law  enforcement  officer  or  agency  all
  pertinent information within his possession relating to such matter, and
  to  cooperate  fully  with  any  law  enforcement  officer   or   agency
  investigating such matter.
2.  A  person  is  guilty of failing to report criminal communications
  when he knowingly violates any duty prescribed  in  subdivision  one  of
  this section.
Failing to report criminal communications is a class B misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 250 - Offenses Against the Right to Privacy › 250.40 - Unlawful Surveillance; Definitions.

§ 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 believe
  that he or she could fully disrobe in privacy.
2. "Imaging  device"  means  any  mechanical,  digital  or  electronic
  viewing  device,  camera, cellular phone or any other instrument capable
  of recording, storing or transmitting visual images that can be utilized
  to observe a person.
3. "Sexual or other intimate parts" means the  human  male  or  female
  genitals,  pubic area or buttocks, or the female breast below the top of
  the nipple, and shall include such part or parts which are covered  only
  by an undergarment.
4.  "Broadcast"  means electronically transmitting a visual image with
  the intent that it be viewed by a person.
5. "Disseminate" means to give, provide, lend,  deliver,  mail,  send,
  forward,  transfer  or  transmit, electronically or otherwise to another
  person.
6. "Publish" means to (a) disseminate, as defined in subdivision  five
  of  this  section,  with  the  intent  that  such  image  or  images  be
  disseminated to ten or more persons; or (b) disseminate with the  intent
  that  such  images  be  sold  by  another  person; or (c) post, present,
  display, exhibit, circulate, advertise or allows access,  electronically
  or  otherwise, so as to make an image or images available to the public;
  or (d) disseminate with the intent that an image or  images  be  posted,
  presented,   displayed,   exhibited,   circulated,  advertised  or  made
  accessible, electronically or otherwise and to make such image or images
  available to the public.
7. "Sell" means to  disseminate  to  another  person,  as  defined  in
  subdivision  five  of  this  section,  or  to  publish,  as  defined  in
  subdivision six of this section, in exchange for something of value.