N.Y. Defense Emergency Act 1951 784/51 § 101: Violations and penalties

§ 101. Violations and penalties. 1. Any person who shall wilfully

violate or disobey any regulation or order concerning the guarding and

protection of water supplies, railroads, public utility property,

bridges, docks, highways, landing fields, airports, public buildings,

factories, plants, stockpiles, vital and strategic materials, and other

focal points of possible attack, the loss or destruction of which might

menace or endanger the security and safety of the civilian population,

impede the military forces or impede the defense effort, shall be guilty

of a misdemeanor.

2. Any person who shall violate or disobey any duly promulgated

regulation or order, or who shall wilfully violate or disobey any

official order by a person duly authorized, concerning (a) the effective

screening or extinguishment of all lights, lighting devices and

appliances, or (b) the conduct of civilians and the movement and

cessation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic shall be guilty of a

misdemeanor.

3. Any person who shall without authority wear or display any official

brassard or insignia indicative of membership in a municipal or

volunteer agency shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

4. Except for the purpose of any authorized test or drill, any person

who shall wilfully utter any false air raid alarm, signal or warning or

who shall wilfully simulate any official air raid signal or warning or

who shall wilfully break, injure or remove any mechanical warning or

signal devices used therefor, shall be guilty of a felony.

5. Any person who shall wilfully violate or disobey any regulation or

order duly promulgated pursuant to this act, for which a person is not

declared to be guilty of either a misdemeanor or an infraction by this

act shall be guilty of an infraction.

6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to exempt persons to

the extent prescribed by regulation or order of the council or

commission.