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.

• § 480.20 — Disposal of property
• § 480.25 — Election of remedies
• § 480.30 — Provisional remedies
• § 480.35 — Rebuttable presumption
• § 485.00 — Legislative findings
• § 485.05 — Hate crimes
• § 485.10 — Sentencing
• § 490.00 — Legislative findings
• § 490.01 — Liability protection
• § 490.05 — Definitions
• § 490.10 — Soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism in the second degree
• § 490.15 — Soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism in the first degree
• § 490.20 — Making a terroristic threat
• § 490.25 — Crime of terrorism
• § 490.27 — Domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate in the second degree
• § 490.28 — Domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate in the first degree
• § 490.30 — Hindering prosecution of terrorism in the second degree
• § 490.35 — Hindering prosecution of terrorism in the first degree
• § 490.37 — Criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the third degree
• § 490.40 — Criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the second degree
• § 490.45 — Criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the first degree
• § 490.47 — Criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the third degree
• § 490.50 — Criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the second degree
• § 490.55 — Criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the first degree
• § 490.70 — Limitations
• § 496.01 — Definitions
• § 496.02 — Corrupting the government in the fourth degree
• § 496.03 — Corrupting the government in the third degree
• § 496.04 — Corrupting the government in the second degree
• § 496.05 — Corrupting the government in the first degree
• § 496.06 — Public corruption
• § 496.07 — Sentencing
• § 5.00 — Penal law not strictly construed
• § 5.05 — Application of chapter to offenses committed before and after enactment
• § 5.10 — Other limitations on applicability of this chapter
• § 500.05 — Laws repealed
• § 500.10 — Time of taking effect
• § 55.00 — Applicability of article
• § 55.05 — Classifications of felonies and misdemeanors
• § 55.10 — Designation of offenses
• § 60.00 — Applicability of provisions
• § 60.01 — Authorized dispositions; generally
• § 60.02 — Authorized disposition; youthful offender
• § 60.04 — Authorized disposition; controlled substances and marihuana felony offenses
• § 60.05 — Authorized dispositions; other class A, B, certain C and D felonies and multiple felony offenders
• § 60.06 — Authorized disposition; murder in the first degree offenders; aggravated murder offenders; certain murder in the second degree offenders;...
• § 60.07 — Authorized disposition; criminal attack on operators of for-hire vehicles
• § 60.08 — Authorized dispositions; resentencing of certain controlled substance offenders
• § 60.09 — Authorized dispositions; resentencing of certain persons convicted of specified controlled substance offenses
• § 60.10 — Authorized disposition; juvenile offender
• § 60.10-A — Authorized disposition; adolescent offender
• § 60.11 — Authorized dispositions; criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree
• § 60.11-A — Authorized dispositions; certain criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree offenders
• § 60.12 — Authorized disposition; alternative sentence; domestic violence cases
• § 60.13 — Authorized dispositions; felony sex offenses
• § 60.20 — Authorized dispositions; traffic infraction
• § 60.21 — Authorized dispositions; driving while intoxicated or aggravated driving while intoxicated
• § 60.25 — Authorized dispositions; corporation
• § 60.27 — Restitution and reparation
• § 60.28 — Authorized disposition; making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments
• § 60.29 — Authorized disposition; cemetery desecration
• § 60.30 — Civil penalties
• § 60.35 — Mandatory surcharge, sex offender registration fee, DNA databank fee, supplemental sex offender victim fee and crime victim assistance fe...
• § 60.36 — Authorized dispositions; driving while intoxicated offenses
• § 60.37 — Authorized disposition; certain offenses
• § 65.00 — Sentence of probation
• § 65.05 — Sentence of conditional discharge
• § 65.10 — Conditions of probation and of conditional discharge
• § 65.15 — Calculation of periods of probation and of conditional discharge
• § 65.20 — Sentence of unconditional discharge
• § 70.00 — Sentence of imprisonment for felony
• § 70.02 — Sentence of imprisonment for a violent felony offense
• § 70.04 — Sentence of imprisonment for second violent felony offender
• § 70.05 — Sentence of imprisonment for juvenile offender
• § 70.06 — Sentence of imprisonment for second felony offender
• § 70.07 — Sentence of imprisonment for second child sexual assault felony offender
• § 70.08 — Sentence of imprisonment for persistent violent felony offender; criteria
• § 70.10 — Sentence of imprisonment for persistent felony offender
• § 70.15 — Sentences of imprisonment for misdemeanors and violation
• § 70.20 — Place of imprisonment
• § 70.25 — Concurrent and consecutive terms of imprisonment
• § 70.30 — Calculation of terms of imprisonment
• § 70.35 — Merger of certain definite and indeterminate or determinate sentences
• § 70.40 — Release on parole; conditional release; presumptive release
• § 70.45 — Determinate sentence; post-release supervision
• § 70.70 — Sentence of imprisonment for felony drug offender other than a class A felony
• § 70.71 — Sentence of imprisonment for a class A felony drug offender
• § 70.80 — Sentences of imprisonment for conviction of a felony sex offense
• § 70.85 — Transitional exception to determinate sentencing laws
• § 80.00 — Fine for felony
• § 80.05 — Fines for misdemeanors and violation
• § 80.10 — Fines for corporations
• § 80.15 — Multiple offenses
• § 85.00 — Sentence of intermittent imprisonment
• § 85.05 — Modification and revocation of sentences of intermittent imprisonment
• § 85.10 — Commitment; notifications; warrants
• § 85.15 — Subsequent sentences