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2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.11 - Aggravated Patronizing a Minor for Prostitution in the Third Degree.

§ 230.11 Aggravated  patronizing  a  minor for prostitution in the third
degree.
* A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated  patronizing   a   minor   for
  prostitution  in  the  third  degree when, being twenty-one years old or
  more, he or she patronizes a person  for  prostitution  and  the  person
  patronized  is  less  than  seventeen years old and the person guilty of
  patronizing engages in sexual intercourse,  oral  sexual  conduct,  anal
  sexual  conduct, or aggravated sexual conduct as those terms are defined
  in section 130.00 of this part, with the person patronized.
* NB Effective until September 1, 2024
* A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated  patronizing   a   minor   for
  prostitution  in  the  third  degree when, being twenty-one years old or
  more, he or she patronizes a person  for  prostitution  and  the  person
  patronized  is  less  than  seventeen years old and the person guilty of
  patronizing engages in vaginal sexual contact, oral sexual contact, anal
  sexual contact, or aggravated sexual contact as those terms are  defined
  in section 130.00 of this part, with the person patronized.
* NB Effective September 1, 2024
Aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution in the third degree is
  a class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.12 - Aggravated Patronizing a Minor for Prostitution in the Second Degree.

§ 230.12 Aggravated  patronizing  a minor for prostitution in the second
degree.
* A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated  patronizing   a   minor   for
  prostitution  in  the  second  degree  when, being eighteen years old or
  more, he or she patronizes a person  for  prostitution  and  the  person
  patronized  is  less  than  fifteen  years  old and the person guilty of
  patronizing engages in sexual intercourse,  oral  sexual  conduct,  anal
  sexual  conduct, or aggravated sexual conduct as those terms are defined
  in section 130.00 of this part, with the person patronized.
* NB Effective until September 1, 2024
* A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated  patronizing   a   minor   for
  prostitution  in  the  second  degree  when, being eighteen years old or
  more, he or she patronizes a person  for  prostitution  and  the  person
  patronized  is  less  than  fifteen  years  old and the person guilty of
  patronizing engages in vaginal sexual contact, oral sexual contact, anal
  sexual contact, or aggravated sexual contact as those terms are  defined
  in section 130.00 of this part, with the person patronized.
* NB Effective September 1, 2024
Aggravated  patronizing  a minor for prostitution in the second degree
  is a class D felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.13 - Aggravated Patronizing a Minor for Prostitution in the First Degree.

§ 230.13 Aggravated  patronizing  a  minor for prostitution in the first
degree.
* A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated  patronizing   a   minor   for
  prostitution  in the first degree when he or she patronizes a person for
  prostitution and the person patronized is less than eleven years old, or
  being eighteen years old or more, he or  she  patronizes  a  person  for
  prostitution  and the person patronized is less than thirteen years old,
  and the person guilty of patronizing engages in sexual intercourse, oral
  sexual conduct, anal sexual conduct, or  aggravated  sexual  conduct  as
  those  terms are defined in section 130.00 of this part, with the person
  patronized.
* NB Effective until September 1, 2024
* A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated  patronizing   a   minor   for
  prostitution  in the first degree when he or she patronizes a person for
  prostitution and the person patronized is less than eleven years old, or
  being eighteen years old or more, he or  she  patronizes  a  person  for
  prostitution  and the person patronized is less than thirteen years old,
  and the person guilty of patronizing engages in vaginal sexual  contact,
  oral  sexual  contact, anal sexual contact, or aggravated sexual contact
  as those terms are defined in section 130.00  of  this  part,  with  the
  person patronized.
* NB Effective September 1, 2024
Aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution in the first degree is
  a class B felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.15 - Promoting Prostitution; Definitions of Terms.

§ 230.15 Promoting prostitution; definitions of terms.
The following definitions are applicable to this article:
1.  "Advance  prostitution."  A  person  "advances prostitution" when,
  acting other than as a person in prostitution or as a patron thereof, he
  or she knowingly causes  or  aids  a  person  to  commit  or  engage  in
  prostitution,  procures  or  solicits patrons for prostitution, provides
  persons or premises for prostitution purposes, operates  or  assists  in
  the  operation  of a house of prostitution or a prostitution enterprise,
  or engages in any other conduct designed to institute, aid or facilitate
  an act or enterprise of prostitution.
2. "Profit from prostitution." A person  "profits  from  prostitution"
  when,   acting   other  than  as  a  person  in  prostitution  receiving
  compensation for personally rendered prostitution services,  he  or  she
  accepts  or receives money or other property pursuant to an agreement or
  understanding with any person whereby he or she participates  or  is  to
  participate in the proceeds of prostitution activity.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.19 - Promoting Prostitution in a School Zone.

§ 230.19 Promoting prostitution in a school zone.
1. A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in a school zone when,
  being  nineteen  years  old  or  more,  he  or she knowingly advances or
  profits from prostitution that he or she knows or reasonably should know
  is or will be committed in violation of section 230.03 of  this  article
  in a school zone during the hours that school is in session.
2.  For  purposes  of  this  section, "school zone" shall mean "school
  zone" as defined in subdivision two of section 230.03 of this article.
Promoting prostitution in a school zone is a class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.20 - Promoting Prostitution in the Fourth Degree.

§ 230.20 Promoting prostitution in the fourth degree.
A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the fourth degree when
  he or she knowingly:
1. Advances or profits from prostitution; or
2.  With intent to advance or profit from prostitution, distributes or
  disseminates to ten or more people in a public place  obscene  material,
  as  such terms are defined by subdivisions one and two of section 235.00
  of this title, or material that depicts nudity, as such term is  defined
  by subdivision one of section 245.10 of this part.
Promoting prostitution in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.25 - Promoting Prostitution in the Third Degree.

§ 230.25 Promoting prostitution in the third degree.
A  person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the third degree when
  he or she knowingly:
1. Advances or profits from  prostitution  by  managing,  supervising,
  controlling  or  owning,  either  alone or in association with others, a
  house of prostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involving
  prostitution activity by two or  more  persons  in  prostitution,  or  a
  business  that  sells travel-related services knowing that such services
  include or  are  intended  to  facilitate  travel  for  the  purpose  of
  patronizing   a   person   for  prostitution,  including  to  a  foreign
  jurisdiction and regardless of the  legality  of  prostitution  in  said
  foreign jurisdiction; or
2.  Advances  or  profits  from  prostitution  of  a  person less than
  nineteen years old.
Promoting prostitution in the third degree is a class D felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.30 - Promoting Prostitution in the Second Degree.

§ 230.30 Promoting prostitution in the second degree.
A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the second degree when
  he or she knowingly:
1.   Advances   prostitution  by  compelling  a  person  by  force  or
  intimidation to engage in prostitution, or profits  from  such  coercive
  conduct by another; or
2.  Advances  or  profits  from  prostitution  of  a  person less than
  eighteen years old.
Promoting prostitution in the second degree is a class C felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.32 - Promoting Prostitution in the First Degree.

§ 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
A  person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree when
  he or she:
1. knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of  a  person  less
  than thirteen years old; or
2. being twenty-one years old or more, he or she knowingly advances or
  profits from prostitution of a person less than fifteen years old.
Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.33 - Compelling Prostitution.

§ 230.33 Compelling prostitution.
A  person  is  guilty  of compelling prostitution when, being eighteen
  years old  or  more,  he  or  she  knowingly  advances  prostitution  by
  compelling   a  person  less  than  eighteen  years  old,  by  force  or
  intimidation, to engage in prostitution.
Compelling prostitution is a class B felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.34-A - Sex Trafficking of a Child.

§ 230.34-a Sex trafficking of a child.
1.  A  person  is guilty of sex trafficking of a child when he or she,
being twenty-one years old or more, intentionally  advances  or  profits
from prostitution of another person and such person is a child less than
eighteen  years old. Knowledge by the defendant of the age of such child
is not an element of  this  offense  and  it  is  not  a  defense  to  a
prosecution  therefor  that  the  defendant  did not know the age of the
child or believed such age to be eighteen or over.
2. For purposes of this section:
(a) A person "advances prostitution" when,  acting  other  than  as  a
person  in prostitution or as a patron thereof, and with intent to cause
prostitution, he or she directly engages in conduct that facilitates  an
act or enterprise of prostitution.
(b)  A person "profits from prostitution" when, acting other than as a
person in prostitution receiving compensation  for  personally  rendered
prostitution services, and with intent to facilitate prostitution, he or
she accepts or receives money or other property pursuant to an agreement
or  understanding  with any person whereby he or she participates in the
proceeds of prostitution activity.
Sex trafficking of a child is a class B felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.35 - Promoting or Compelling Prostitution; Accomplice.

§ 230.35 Promoting or compelling prostitution; accomplice.
In   a   prosecution   for   promoting   prostitution   or  compelling
  prostitution,  a  person  less  than  eighteen  years  old  from   whose
  prostitution  activity  another  person  is  alleged to have advanced or
  attempted to advance or profited or attempted to  profit  shall  not  be
  deemed to be an accomplice.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.36 - Sex Trafficking; Accomplice.

§ 230.36 Sex trafficking; accomplice.
In a prosecution for sex trafficking, a person from whose prostitution
  activity  another  person  is  alleged  to have advanced or attempted to
  advance or profited or attempted to profit shall not be deemed to be  an
  accomplice.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 230 - Prostitution Offenses › 230.40 - Permitting Prostitution.

§ 230.40 Permitting prostitution.
A  person is guilty of permitting prostitution when, having possession
  or control of premises or vehicle which he or she knows are  being  used
  for  prostitution purposes or for the purpose of advancing prostitution,
  he or she fails to make reasonable effort to halt or abate such use.
Permitting prostitution is a class B misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.05 - Obscenity in the Third Degree.

§ 235.05 Obscenity in the third degree.
A  person is guilty of obscenity in the third degree when, knowing its
  content and character, he:
1.  Promotes,  or  possesses  with  intent  to  promote,  any  obscene
  material; or
2.   Produces,   presents   or   directs  an  obscene  performance  or
  participates in a portion thereof which is obscene or which  contributes
  to its obscenity.
Obscenity in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.06 - Obscenity in the Second Degree.

§ 235.06 Obscenity in the second degree.
A  person  is guilty of obscenity in the second degree when he commits
  the crime of obscenity in the third degree as  defined  in  subdivisions
  one  and  two  of section 235.05 of this chapter and has been previously
  convicted of obscenity in the third degree.
Obscenity in the second degree is a class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.07 - Obscenity in the First Degree.

§ 235.07 Obscenity in the first degree.
A  person is guilty of obscenity in the first degree when, knowing its
  content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to
  wholesale promote, any obscene material.
Obscenity in the first degree is a class D felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.10 - Obscenity; Presumptions.

§ 235.10 Obscenity; presumptions.
1.  A  person  who promotes or wholesale promotes obscene material, or
  possesses the same with intent to promote or wholesale  promote  it,  in
  the  course  of  his business is presumed to do so with knowledge of its
  content and character.
2. A person who possesses six or more  identical  or  similar  obscene
  articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.
The  provisions of this section shall not apply to public libraries or
  association libraries as defined  in  subdivision  two  of  section  two
  hundred  fifty-three  of  the education law, or trustees or employees of
  such public libraries or association libraries when acting in the course
  and scope of their duties or employment.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.15 - Obscenity or Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the Second Degree; Defense.

§  235.15  Obscenity or disseminating indecent material to minors in the
  second degree; defense.
1.  In  any  prosecution  for  obscenity,  or  disseminating  indecent
  material  to  minors  in  the  second degree in violation of subdivision
  three of section 235.21 of this article, it is  an  affirmative  defense
  that  the  persons  to whom allegedly obscene   or indecent material was
  disseminated, or the  audience  to  an  allegedly  obscene  performance,
  consisted  of  persons  or  institutions having scientific, educational,
  governmental   or   other   similar   justification   for    possessing,
  disseminating or viewing the same.
2.    In  any  prosecution for obscenity, it is an affirmative defense
  that the person so charged was a  motion  picture  projectionist,  stage
  employee  or  spotlight  operator,  cashier, doorman, usher, candy stand
  attendant, porter or in  any  other  non-managerial  or  non-supervisory
  capacity  in  a  motion  picture  theatre;  provided he has no financial
  interest, other than his employment, which employment does not encompass
  compensation based upon any proportion of the  gross  receipts,  in  the
  promotion  of  obscene material for sale, rental or exhibition or in the
  promotion, presentation or direction of any obscene performance,  or  is
  in  any  way responsible for acquiring obscene material for sale, rental
  or exhibition.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.20 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors; Definitions of Terms.

§  235.20    Disseminating  indecent  material to minors; definitions of
terms.
The following definitions are applicable to sections  235.21,  235.22,
235.23 and 235.24 of this article:
1.  "Minor" means any person less than seventeen years old.
2.    "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 discernably turgid state.
3.  "Sexual conduct" means acts 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.
4.  "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human  male  or  female
genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
5.   "Sado-masochistic abuse" means flagellation or torture by or upon
a person clad in undergarments,  a  mask  or  bizarre  costume,  or  the
condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on
the part of one so clothed.
6.    "Harmful  to  minors"  means  that quality of any description or
representation, in whatever form,  of  nudity,  sexual  conduct,  sexual
excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse, when it:
(a)  Considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex of
minors; and
(b)    Is  patently  offensive  to  prevailing  standards in the adult
community as a whole with respect  to  what  is  suitable  material  for
minors; and
(c)    Considered  as  a  whole,  lacks  serious  literary,  artistic,
political and scientific value for minors.
7. The term "access software"  means  software  (including  client  or
server  software)  or  enabling  tools that do not create or provide the
content of the communication but that allow a user to do any one or more
of the following:
(a) filter, screen, allow or disallow content;
(b) pick, choose, analyze or digest content; or
(c)  transmit,  receive,  display,  forward,  cache,  search,  subset,
organize, reorganize or translate content.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.21 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the Second Degree.

§ 235.21 Disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree.
A person is guilty of disseminating indecent material to minors in the
second degree when:
1.   With knowledge of its character and content, he sells or loans to
a minor for monetary consideration:
(a)  Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film,
or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of  the
human  body  which  depicts  nudity,  sexual conduct or sado-masochistic
abuse and which is harmful to minors; or
(b)  Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter however  reproduced,
or sound recording which contains any matter enumerated in paragraph (a)
hereof,  or  explicit  and  detailed  verbal  descriptions  or narrative
accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic  abuse
and which, taken as a whole, is harmful to minors; or
2.    Knowing  the  character and content of a motion picture, show or
other presentation which, in whole or in part,  depicts  nudity,  sexual
conduct or sado-masochistic abuse, and which is harmful to minors, he:
(a)    Exhibits  such  motion picture, show or other presentation to a
minor for a monetary consideration; or
(b)  Sells to a minor an admission ticket or pass to premises  whereon
there is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture, show or other
presentation; or
(c)    Admits a minor for a monetary consideration to premises whereon
there is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture show or  other
presentation; or
3.  Knowing  the  character and content of the communication which, in
whole or in part, depicts actual or simulated nudity, sexual conduct  or
sado-masochistic abuse, and which is harmful to minors, he intentionally
uses  any  computer  communication  system  allowing  the input, output,
examination or transfer, of computer data or computer programs from  one
computer  to another, to initiate or engage in such communication with a
person who is a minor.
Disseminating indecent material to minors in the second  degree  is  a
class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.22 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the First Degree.

§ 235.22 Disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree.
A person is guilty of disseminating indecent material to minors in the
  first degree when:
1.  knowing  the  character and content of the communication which, in
  whole or in part, depicts or describes, either in words or images actual
  or simulated nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse, and which
  is harmful to minors, he intentionally uses any  computer  communication
  system  allowing the input, output, examination or transfer, of computer
  data or computer programs from one computer to another, to  initiate  or
  engage in such communication with a person who is a minor; and
* 2.  by means of such communication he importunes, invites or induces
  a minor to engage in sexual intercourse, oral  sexual  conduct  or  anal
  sexual  conduct,  or  sexual  contact with him, or to engage in a sexual
  performance, obscene sexual  performance,  or  sexual  conduct  for  his
  benefit.
* NB Effective until September 1, 2024
* 2.  by means of such communication he importunes, invites or induces
  a minor to engage in vaginal sexual contact, oral sexual contact or anal
  sexual contact, or sexual contact with him, or to  engage  in  a  sexual
  performance,  obscene  sexual  performance,  or  sexual  conduct for his
  benefit.
* NB Effective September 1, 2024
Disseminating indecent material to minors in the  first  degree  is  a
  class D felony.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.23 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors; Presumption and Defenses.

§  235.23    Disseminating  indecent material to minors; presumption and
defenses.
1. A person who engages in the conduct proscribed by section 235.21 is
presumed to do so with knowledge of the character  and  content  of  the
material  sold  or  loaned,  or the motion picture, show or presentation
exhibited or to be exhibited.
2. In any prosecution for disseminating indecent material to minors in
the second degree pursuant to subdivision one or two of  section  235.21
of this article, it is an affirmative defense that:
(a)  The  defendant  had  reasonable  cause  to believe that the minor
involved was seventeen years old or more; and
(b)  Such minor exhibited to the  defendant  a  draft  card,  driver's
license,  birth  certificate  or  other  official or apparently official
document purporting to establish that such minor was seventeen years old
or more.
3. In any prosecution for disseminating indecent material to minors in
the second degree pursuant to subdivision three  of  section  235.21  of
this  article  or disseminating indecent material to minors in the first
degree pursuant to section 235.22 of this article, it shall be a defense
that:
(a) The defendant made a reasonable effort to ascertain the  true  age
of the minor and was unable to do so as a result of actions taken by the
minor; or
(b)  The defendant has taken, in good faith, reasonable, effective and
appropriate actions under  the  circumstances  to  restrict  or  prevent
access  by  minors to materials specified in such subdivision, which may
involve any appropriate measures to restrict minors from access to  such
communications,  including  any method which is feasible under available
technology; or
(c) The defendant has restricted access to such materials by requiring
use of a verified credit card, debit account, adult access code or adult
personal identification number; or
(d) The defendant has in good faith established a mechanism such  that
the  labelling,  segregation or other mechanism enables such material to
be automatically blocked or screened by software or  other  capabilities
reasonably  available  to  responsible  adults  wishing  to  effect such
blocking or screening and the  defendant  has  not  otherwise  solicited
minors  not subject to such screening or blocking capabilities to access
that material or to circumvent any such screening or blocking.
2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title M - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals › Article 235 - Obscenity and Related Offenses › 235.24 - Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors; Limitations.

§ 235.24 Disseminating indecent material to minors; limitations.
In  any  prosecution  for disseminating indecent material to minors in
the second degree pursuant to subdivision three  of  section  235.21  of
this  article  or disseminating indecent material to minors in the first
degree pursuant to section 235.22 of this article:
1. No person shall be held to have violated such provisions solely for
providing access or connection to or from a facility, system, or network
not under that person's control,  including  transmission,  downloading,
intermediate  storage,  access  software,  or other related capabilities
that are incidental to providing such access or connection that  do  not
include the creation of the content of the communication.
(a)  The  limitations  provided  by  this  subdivision  shall  not  be
applicable to a person who is a  conspirator  with  an  entity  actively
involved  in the creation or knowing distribution of communications that
violate such provisions, or who knowingly advertises the availability of
such communications.
(b)  The  limitations  provided  by  this  subdivision  shall  not  be
applicable  to a person who provides access or connection to a facility,
system, or network engaged in the violation of such provisions  that  is
owned or controlled by such person.
2.  No  employer  shall  be  held liable under such provisions for the
actions of an employee or agent unless the employee's or agent's conduct
is within the scope of his employment or agency and the employer  having
knowledge  of  such  conduct,  authorizes  or  ratifies such conduct, or
recklessly disregards such conduct.
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 › 240.00 - Offenses Against Public Order; Definitions of Terms.

§ 240.00 Offenses against public order; definitions of terms.
The following definitions are applicable to this article:
1.  "Public  place" means a place to which the public or a substantial
  group of persons has access,  and  includes,  but  is  not  limited  to,
  highways,  transportation  facilities,  schools,  places  of  amusement,
  parks, playgrounds, community centers, and hallways, lobbies  and  other
  portions  of  apartment  houses  and  hotels  not  constituting rooms or
  apartments designed for actual residence.
2. "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, school buses as defined in
  section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law,  and  air,
  boat,  railroad  and  bus  terminals  and stations and all appurtenances
  thereto.
3. "School grounds" means in or on or within any building,  structure,
  school  bus  as  defined in section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle
  and traffic law, athletic playing field, playground  or  land  contained
  within   the  real  property  boundary  line  of  a  public  or  private
  elementary, parochial, intermediate, junior  high,  vocational  or  high
  school.
4.   "Hazardous   substance"   shall   mean  any  physical,  chemical,
  microbiological or radiological substance or matter  which,  because  of
  its   quantity,  concentration,  or  physical,  chemical  or  infectious
  characteristics, may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in
  mortality or an  increase  in  serious  irreversible  or  incapacitating
  reversible illness, or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to
  human health.
5. "Age" means sixty years old or more.
6.   "Disability"   means   a   physical  or  mental  impairment  that
  substantially limits a major life activity.
7.  "Gender  identity  or  expression"  means  a  person's  actual  or
  perceived  gender-related identity, appearance, behavior, expression, or
  other gender-related characteristic regardless of the  sex  assigned  to
  that person at birth, including, but not limited to, the status of being
  transgender.
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 › 240.05 - Riot in the Second Degree.

§ 240.05 Riot in the second degree.
A  person  is guilty of riot in the second degree when, simultaneously
  with four or more other persons, he engages in  tumultuous  and  violent
  conduct  and  thereby  intentionally  or  recklessly causes or creates a
  grave risk of causing public alarm.
Riot 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 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.06 - Riot in the First Degree.

§ 240.06 Riot in the first degree.
A person is guilty of riot in the first degree when he:
1.   Simultaneously  with  ten  or  more  other  persons,  engages  in
  tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby intentionally  or  recklessly
  causes  or  creates  a  grave  risk  of causing public alarm, and in the
  course of and as a result of such conduct, a person other  than  one  of
  the  participants suffers physical injury or substantial property damage
  occurs; or
2. While in a correctional facility or a local correctional  facility,
  as   those   terms   are  defined  in  subdivisions  four  and  sixteen,
  respectively, of section two of the correction law, simultaneously  with
  ten or more other persons, engages in tumultuous and violent conduct and
  thereby  intentionally  or  recklessly causes or creates a grave risk of
  causing alarm within such correctional facility  or  local  correctional
  facility  and in the course of and as a result of such conduct, a person
  other  than  one  of  the  participants  suffers  physical   injury   or
  substantial property damage occurs.
Riot 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 › 240.08 - Inciting to Riot.

§ 240.08 Inciting to riot.
A  person  is  guilty  of  inciting  to riot when he urges ten or more
  persons to engage in tumultuous and violent conduct of a kind likely  to
  create public alarm.
Inciting to riot 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 › 240.10 - Unlawful Assembly.

§ 240.10 Unlawful assembly.
A person is guilty of unlawful assembly when he assembles with four or
  more  other  persons  for the purpose of engaging or preparing to engage
  with them in tumultuous and  violent  conduct  likely  to  cause  public
  alarm,  or  when,  being  present  at  an  assembly  which either has or
  develops such purpose, he remains there  with  intent  to  advance  that
  purpose.
Unlawful assembly 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 › 240.15 - Criminal Anarchy.

§ 240.15 Criminal anarchy.
A  person  is  guilty  of  criminal  anarchy when (a) he advocates the
  overthrow of the existing form of government of this state by  violence,
  or   (b)  with  knowledge  of  its  contents,  he  publishes,  sells  or
  distributes any document which advocates such violent overthrow, or  (c)
  with  knowledge  of its purpose, he becomes a member of any organization
  which advocates such violent overthrow.
Criminal anarchy 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 › 240.20 - Disorderly Conduct.

§ 240.20 Disorderly conduct.
A  person  is  guilty of disorderly conduct when, with intent to cause
  public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a  risk
  thereof:
1.  He  engages  in  fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening
  behavior; or
2. He makes unreasonable noise; or
3. In a public place, he uses abusive or obscene language, or makes an
  obscene gesture; or
4. Without lawful  authority,  he  disturbs  any  lawful  assembly  or
  meeting of persons; or
5. He obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
6.  He congregates with other persons in a public place and refuses to
  comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse; or
7. He creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act
  which serves no legitimate purpose.
Disorderly conduct 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 › 240.21 - Disruption or Disturbance of a Religious Service, Funeral, Burial or Memorial Service.

§ 240.21 Disruption  or  disturbance  of  a  religious service, funeral,
burial or memorial service.
A person is  guilty  of  disruption  or  disturbance  of  a  religious
  service,  funeral,  burial  or  memorial  service  when  he or she makes
  unreasonable  noise  or  disturbance  while  at  a  lawfully   assembled
  religious  service, funeral, burial or memorial service, or within three
  hundred feet thereof,  with  intent  to  cause  annoyance  or  alarm  or
  recklessly creating a risk thereof.
Disruption  or  disturbance of a religious service, funeral, burial or
  memorial service 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 › 240.25 - Harassment in the First Degree.

§ 240.25 Harassment in the first degree.
A  person  is  guilty of harassment in the first degree when he or she
  intentionally and repeatedly harasses another person by  following  such
  person  in  or about a public place or places or by engaging in a course
  of conduct or by repeatedly committing acts which places such person  in
  reasonable  fear  of  physical injury.   This section shall not apply to
  activities regulated by the national labor relations  act,  as  amended,
  the  railway  labor  act,  as  amended,  or the federal employment labor
  management act, as amended.
Harassment in the first degree 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 › 240.26 - Harassment in the Second Degree.

§ 240.26 Harassment in the second degree.
A  person  is  guilty  of  harassment  in the second degree when, with
  intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person:
1. He or she strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects  such  other
  person to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same; or
2. He or she follows a person in or about a public place or places; or
3. He or she engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts
  which  alarm  or  seriously  annoy  such other person and which serve no
  legitimate purpose.
Subdivisions two  and  three  of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to
  activities  regulated  by  the national labor relations act, as amended,
  the railway labor act, as  amended,  or  the  federal  employment  labor
  management act, as amended.
Harassment in the second degree 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 › 240.31 - Aggravated Harassment in the First Degree.

§ 240.31 Aggravated harassment in the first degree.
A  person  is guilty of aggravated harassment in the first degree when
  with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person,  because
  of  a belief or perception regarding such person's race, color, national
  origin, ancestry,  gender,  gender  identity  or  expression,  religion,
  religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation, regardless of
  whether the belief or perception is correct, he or she:
1. Damages premises primarily used for religious purposes, or acquired
  pursuant  to section six of the religious corporation law and maintained
  for purposes of religious instruction, and the damage  to  the  premises
  exceeds fifty dollars; or
2.  Commits the crime of aggravated harassment in the second degree in
  the manner proscribed by the provisions of subdivision three of  section
  240.30 of this article and has been previously convicted of the crime of
  aggravated harassment in the second degree for the commission of conduct
  proscribed  by  the provisions of subdivision three of section 240.30 or
  he or she has been previously  convicted  of  the  crime  of  aggravated
  harassment in the first degree within the preceding ten years; or
3. Etches, paints, draws upon or otherwise places a swastika, commonly
  exhibited  as  the emblem of Nazi Germany, on any building or other real
  property, public or private, owned by any person, firm or corporation or
  any public agency or instrumentality, without express permission of  the
  owner or operator of such building or real property;
4. Sets on fire a cross in public view; or
5. Etches, paints, draws upon or otherwise places or displays a noose,
  commonly  exhibited  as  a  symbol  of  racism  and intimidation, on any
  building or other real property, public or private, owned by any person,
  firm or corporation or any public  agency  or  instrumentality,  without
  express  permission  of  the  owner or operator of such building or real
  property.
Aggravated harassment 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 › 240.32 - Aggravated Harassment of an Employee by an Incarcerated Individual.

§  240.32  Aggravated  harassment  of  an  employee  by  an incarcerated
individual.
An incarcerated individual  or  respondent  is  guilty  of  aggravated
  harassment  of  an  employee  by  an  incarcerated individual when, with
  intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a person in a  facility  whom
  he  or  she  knows  or  reasonably should know to be an employee of such
  facility or the board of parole or the office of  mental  health,  or  a
  probation  department,  bureau  or  unit  or a police officer, he or she
  causes or attempts to cause such employee  to  come  into  contact  with
  blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by
  throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material.
For  purposes  of  this  section,  "incarcerated  individual" means an
  incarcerated individual or detainee in a  correctional  facility,  local
  correctional  facility  or  a  hospital,  as  such  term  is  defined in
  subdivision two of section four  hundred  of  the  correction  law.  For
  purposes  of  this  section,  "respondent"  means a juvenile in a secure
  facility operated and maintained by the office of  children  and  family
  services  who  is placed with or committed to the office of children and
  family services. For  purposes  of  this  section,  "facility"  means  a
  correctional  facility or local correctional facility, hospital, as such
  term is defined in subdivision  two  of  section  four  hundred  of  the
  correction  law,  or  a  secure  facility operated and maintained by the
  office of children and family services.
Aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual  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 › 240.35 - Loitering.

§ 240.35 Loitering.
A person is guilty of loitering when he:
2.  Loiters  or  remains in a public place for the purpose of gambling
  with cards, dice or other gambling paraphernalia; or
5. Loiters or remains  in  or  about  school  grounds,  a  college  or
  university building or grounds or a children's overnight camp as defined
  in  section  one  thousand three hundred ninety-two of the public health
  law or a summer day camp  as  defined  in  section  one  thousand  three
  hundred  ninety-two  of the public health law, or loiters, remains in or
  enters a school bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two  of  the
  vehicle and traffic law, not having any reason or relationship involving
  custody  of  or  responsibility  for  a  pupil  or student, or any other
  specific, legitimate reason for being  there,  and  not  having  written
  permission  from  anyone  authorized  to  grant  the  same or loiters or
  remains in or about such children's overnight camp or summer day camp in
  violation of conspicuously posted rules or regulations  governing  entry
  and use thereof; or
6.   Loiters   or  remains  in  any  transportation  facility,  unless
  specifically authorized to do so,  for  the  purpose  of  soliciting  or
  engaging in any business, trade or commercial transactions involving the
  sale  of  merchandise  or  services,  or for the purpose of entertaining
  persons by singing, dancing or playing any musical instrument; or
Loitering 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 › 240.36 - Loitering in the First Degree.

§ 240.36 Loitering in the first degree.
A person is guilty of loitering in the first degree when he loiters or
  remains  in  any  place  with  one  or  more  persons for the purpose of
  unlawfully using or possessing a controlled  substance,  as  defined  in
  section 220.00 of this chapter.
Loitering in the first degree 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 › 240.40 - Appearance in Public Under the Influence of Narcotics or a Drug Other Than Alcohol.

§ 240.40 Appearance in public under the influence of narcotics or a drug
other than alcohol.
A  person  is  guilty  of  appearance in public under the influence of
  narcotics or a drug other than alcohol when he appears in a public place
  under the influence of narcotics or a drug other  than  alcohol  to  the
  degree  that  he  may  endanger himself or other persons or property, or
  annoy persons in his vicinity.
Appearance in public under the influence of narcotics or a drug  other
  than alcohol 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 › 240.45 - Criminal Nuisance in the Second Degree.

§ 240.45 Criminal nuisance in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal nuisance in the second degree when:
1.  By conduct either unlawful in itself or unreasonable under all the
  circumstances,  he  knowingly  or  recklessly  creates  or  maintains  a
  condition  which endangers the safety or health of a considerable number
  of persons; or
2. He knowingly conducts or maintains any premises,  place  or  resort
  where persons gather for purposes of engaging in unlawful conduct.
Criminal nuisance in the second degree 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 › 240.46 - Criminal Nuisance in the First Degree.

§ 240.46 Criminal nuisance in the first degree.
A  person  is  guilty of criminal nuisance in the first degree when he
  knowingly conducts or maintains any  premises,  place  or  resort  where
  persons  come or gather for purposes of engaging in the unlawful sale of
  controlled substances in violation of section 220.39, 220.41, or  220.43
  of  this  chapter,  and  thereby  derives the benefit from such unlawful
  conduct.
Criminal nuisance in the first degree is a class E felony.