New York
New York Penal Law (PEN)
897 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 240.75 — Aggravated family offense
- § 240.76 — Directing a laser at an aircraft in the second degree
- § 240.77 — Directing a laser at an aircraft in the first degree
- § 240.78 — Making a threat of mass harm
- § 240.79 — Aggravated threat of mass harm
- § 241.00 — Harassment of a rent regulated tenant; definition of terms
- § 241.02 — Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree
- § 241.05 — Harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the first degree
- § 241.07 — Aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant
- § 242.00 — Definitions
- § 242.05 — Interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal
- § 242.10 — Harming a service animal in the second degree
- § 242.15 — Harming a service animal in the first degree
- § 245.00 — Public lewdness
- § 245.01 — Exposure of a person
- § 245.02 — Promoting the exposure of a person
- § 245.03 — Public lewdness in the first degree
- § 245.05 — Offensive exhibition
- § 245.10 — Public display of offensive sexual material; definitions of terms
- § 245.11 — Public display of offensive sexual material
- § 245.15 — Unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image
- § 25.00 — Defenses; burden of proof
- § 250.00 — Eavesdropping; definitions of terms
- § 250.05 — Eavesdropping
- § 250.10 — Possession of eavesdropping devices
- § 250.15 — Failure to report wiretapping
- § 250.20 — Divulging an eavesdropping warrant
- § 250.25 — Tampering with private communications
- § 250.30 — Unlawfully obtaining communications information
- § 250.35 — Failing to report criminal communications
- § 250.40 — Unlawful surveillance; definitions
- § 250.45 — Unlawful surveillance in the second degree
- § 250.50 — Unlawful surveillance in the first degree
- § 250.55 — Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree
- § 250.60 — Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the first degree
- § 250.65 — Additional provisions
- § 250.70 — Unlawful dissemination of a personal image; definitions, application
- § 250.71 — Unlawful dissemination of a personal image
- § 255.00 — Unlawfully solemnizing a marriage
- § 255.05 — Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree
- § 255.10 — Unlawfully procuring a marriage license
- § 255.15 — Bigamy
- § 255.20 — Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery: defense
- § 255.25 — Incest in the third degree
- § 255.26 — Incest in the second degree
- § 255.27 — Incest in the first degree
- § 255.30 — Adultery and incest; corroboration
- § 260.00 — Abandonment of a child
- § 260.05 — Non-support of a child in the second degree
- § 260.06 — Non-support of a child in the first degree
- § 260.10 — Endangering the welfare of a child
- § 260.11 — Endangering the welfare of a child; corroboration
- § 260.15 — Endangering the welfare of a child; defense
- § 260.20 — Unlawfully dealing with a child in the first degree
- § 260.21 — Unlawfully dealing with a child in the second degree
- § 260.22 — Facilitating female genital mutilation
- § 260.24 — Endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person in the second degree
- § 260.25 — Endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person in the first degree
- § 260.31 — Vulnerable elderly persons; definitions
- § 260.31*2 — Misrepresentation by a child day care provider
- § 260.32 — Endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person, or an incompetent or physically disabled person in the second degree
- § 260.34 — Endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person, or an incompetent or physically disabled person in the first degree
- § 260.35 — Misrepresentation by, or on behalf of, a caregiver for a child or children
- § 263.00 — Definitions
- § 263.05 — Use of a child in a sexual performance
- § 263.10 — Promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child
- § 263.11 — Possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child
- § 263.15 — Promoting a sexual performance by a child
- § 263.16 — Possessing a sexual performance by a child
- § 263.20 — Sexual performance by a child; affirmative defenses
- § 263.25 — Proof of age of child
- § 263.30 — Facilitating a sexual performance by a child with a controlled substance or alcohol
- § 265.00 — Definitions
- § 265.01 — Criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree
- § 265.01-A — Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds
- § 265.01-B — Criminal possession of a firearm
- § 265.01-C — Criminal possession of a rapid-fire modification device
- § 265.01-D — Criminal possession of a weapon in a restricted location
- § 265.01-E — Criminal possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun in a sensitive location
- § 265.02 — Criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree
- § 265.03 — Criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree
- § 265.04 — Criminal possession of a weapon in the first degree
- § 265.05 — Unlawful possession of weapons by persons under sixteen
- § 265.06 — Unlawful possession of a weapon upon school grounds
- § 265.07 — Registration and serialization of firearms, rifles, shotguns, finished frames or receivers, and unfinished frames or receivers
- § 265.08 — Criminal use of a firearm in the second degree
- § 265.09 — Criminal use of a firearm in the first degree
- § 265.10 — Manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of weapons and dangerous instruments and appliances
- § 265.11 — Criminal sale of a firearm in the third degree
- § 265.12 — Criminal sale of a firearm in the second degree
- § 265.13 — Criminal sale of a firearm in the first degree
- § 265.14 — Criminal sale of a firearm with the aid of a minor
- § 265.15 — Presumptions of possession, unlawful intent and defacement
- § 265.16 — Criminal sale of a firearm to a minor
- § 265.17 — Criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon
- § 265.19 — Aggravated criminal possession of a weapon
- § 265.20 — Exemptions
- § 265.25 — Certain wounds to be reported
- § 265.26 — Burn injury and wounds to be reported
- § 265.30 — Certain convictions to be reported
- § 265.35 — Prohibited use of weapons
- § 265.37 — Unlawful possession of certain ammunition feeding devices
- § 265.38 — Unlawful sale of a non-microstamping-enabled firearm
- § 265.40 — Purchase of rifles and/or shotguns in contiguous states
- § 265.45 — Failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the first degree
- § 265.46 — Failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the second degree
- § 265.50 — Criminal manufacture, sale, or transport of an undetectable firearm, rifle or shotgun
- § 265.55 — Criminal possession of an undetectable firearm, rifle or shotgun
- § 265.60 — Criminal sale of a ghost gun in the second degree
- § 265.61 — Criminal sale of a ghost gun in the first degree
- § 265.63 — Criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the second degree
- § 265.64 — Criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the first degree
- § 265.65 — Criminal purchase of a semiautomatic rifle
- § 265.66 — Criminal sale of a semiautomatic rifle
- § 270.00 — Unlawfully dealing with fireworks and dangerous fireworks
- § 270.05 — Unlawfully possessing or selling noxious material
- § 270.10 — Creating a hazard
- § 270.15 — Unlawfully refusing to yield a party line
- § 270.20 — Unlawful wearing of body armor
- § 270.21 — Unlawful purchase of body armor
- § 270.22 — Unlawful sale of body armor
- § 270.25 — Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree
- § 270.30 — Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second degree
- § 270.35 — Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree
- § 270.40 — Unlawfully installing a gas meter
- § 275.00 — Definitions
- § 275.05 — Manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the second degree
- § 275.10 — Manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the first degree
- § 275.15 — Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the second degree
- § 275.20 — Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the first degree
- § 275.25 — Advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the second degree
- § 275.30 — Advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the first degree
- § 275.32 — Unlawful operation of a recording device in a motion picture or live theater in the third degree
- § 275.33 — Unlawful operation of a recording device in a motion picture or live theater in the second degree
- § 275.34 — Unlawful operation of a recording device in a motion picture or live theater in the first degree
- § 275.35 — Failure to disclose the origin of a recording in the second degree
- § 275.40 — Failure to disclose the origin of a recording in the first degree
- § 275.45 — Limitations of application
- § 280.00 — Definitions
- § 280.05 — Unlawful use of a drone
- § 280.10 — Applicability and restrictions
- § 30.00 — Infancy
- § 35.00 — Justification; a defense
- § 35.05 — Justification; generally
- § 35.10 — Justification; use of physical force generally
- § 35.15 — Justification; use of physical force in defense of a person
- § 35.20 — Justification; use of physical force in defense of premises and in defense of a person in the course of burglary
- § 35.25 — Justification; use of physical force to prevent or terminate larceny or criminal mischief
- § 35.27 — Justification; use of physical force in resisting arrest prohibited
- § 35.30 — Justification; use of physical force in making an arrest or in preventing an escape
- § 40.00 — Duress
- § 40.05 — Entrapment
- § 40.10 — Renunciation
- § 40.15 — Mental disease or defect
- § 400.00 — Licensing and other provisions relating to firearms
- § 400.01 — License to carry and possess firearms for retired sworn members of the division of state police
- § 400.02 — Statewide license and record database
- § 400.03 — Sellers of ammunition
- § 400.05 — Disposition of weapons and dangerous instruments, appliances and substances
- § 400.06 — National instant criminal background checks
- § 400.10 — Report of theft or loss of a firearm, rifle or shotgun
- § 400.20 — Waiting period in connection with the sale or transfer of a rifle or shotgun
- § 400.30 — Application
- § 405.00 — Permits for public displays of fireworks
- § 405.05 — Seizure and destruction of fireworks
- § 405.10 — Permits for indoor pyrotechnics
- § 405.12 — Unpermitted use of indoor pyrotechnics in the second degree
- § 405.14 — Unpermitted use of indoor pyrotechnics in the first degree
- § 405.16 — Aggravated unpermitted use of indoor pyrotechnics in the second degree
- § 405.18 — Aggravated unpermitted use of indoor pyrotechnics in the first degree
- § 410.00 — Seizure and forfeiture of equipment used in photographing, filming, producing, manufacturing, projecting or distributing pornographic sti...
- § 415.00 — Seizure and forfeiture of vehicles, vessels and aircraft used to transport or conceal gambling records
- § 420.00 — Seizure and destruction of unauthorized recordings
- § 420.05 — Seizure and forfeiture of equipment used in the production of unauthorized recordings
- § 450.10 — Disposal of stolen property
- § 460.00 — Legislative findings
- § 460.10 — Definitions
- § 460.20 — Enterprise corruption
- § 460.22 — Aggravated enterprise corruption
- § 460.25 — Enterprise corruption; limitations
- § 460.30 — Enterprise corruption; forfeiture
- § 460.40 — Enterprise corruption; jurisdiction
- § 460.50 — Enterprise corruption; prosecution
- § 460.60 — Enterprise corruption; consent to prosecute
- § 460.70 — Provisional remedies
- § 460.80 — Court ordered disclosure
- § 470.00 — Definitions
- § 470.03 — Money laundering: aggregation of value; other matters
- § 470.05 — Money laundering in the fourth degree
- § 470.10 — Money laundering in the third degree
- § 470.15 — Money laundering in the second degree
- § 470.20 — Money laundering in the first degree
- § 470.21 — Money laundering in support of terrorism in the fourth degree
- § 470.22 — Money laundering in support of terrorism in the third degree
- § 470.23 — Money laundering in support of terrorism in the second degree
- § 470.24 — Money laundering in support of terrorism in the first degree
- § 470.25 — Money laundering; fines
- § 480.00 — Definitions
- § 480.05 — Felony controlled substance offenses; forfeiture
- § 480.10 — Procedure