N.Y. Military Law § 238-a: Damaging military or naval equipment, supplies or stores

§ 238-a. Damaging military or naval equipment, supplies or stores. A

person who, wilfully or maliciously:

1. Injures or destroys any article of equipment or supplies or

military or naval stores of or for the military or naval forces of the

United States or of or for the state of New York or of or for any

foreign government with which the United States maintains diplomatic

relations, or any article used or intended for use in the production or

manufacture of any such article; or

2. Injures or destroys any building, structure, or vessel used or

occupied by the military or naval forces of the United States or of the

state of New York or of any foreign government with which the United

States maintains diplomatic relations, or any article used or intended

for use in the construction or operation of any such building, structure

or vessel; or

3. Injures or destroys any building, structure, or vessel used or

occupied in the production of any article mentioned in subdivision one

of this section or any article used or intended for use in the

construction or operation of any such building, structure, or vessel; or

4. Injures or destroys any machine, tool, implement, plan, fuel, fuel

line, power line, generator or transformer used or intended for use in

the production of any article mentioned in subdivisions one, two or

three of this section or used or intended to be used in the construction

or operation of any building, structure, or vessel mentioned in

subdivision two or three of this section; or tampers with any such

machine, tool, implement, plan, fuel, fuel line, power line, generator

or transformer with intent to lessen its efficiency in the production of

any such article; or

5. Injures or destroys any railroad engine or car, or any vehicle, or

any vessel used or intended for use in the transportation of any article

or machine mentioned in subdivision one, two, three or four of this

section, or tampers with any such engine, car, vehicle, or vessel with

intent to lessen its efficiency in the transportation of any such

article, or with intent to hinder, delay, or obstruct any military or

naval operation or defense preparation of the United States or the state

of New York or of any foreign government with which the United States

maintains diplomatic relations; or

6. Injures, destroys, obstructs, or tampers with any railroad,

highway, bridge, canal or river with intent to interfere with or delay

the transportation of any article or machine mentioned in subdivisions

one, two, three, four or five of this section, or with intent to hinder,

obstruct, or delay any military or naval operation or defense

preparation of the United States or the state of New York or of any

foreign government with which the United States maintains diplomatic

relations; or

7. Unlawfully seizes or carries away or injures or destroys or tampers

with any property with intent to hinder, obstruct, or delay any military

or naval operation or defense preparation of the United States or the

state of New York or of any foreign government with which the United

States maintains diplomatic relations; or

8. Injuries, alters, defaces, mutilates or in any manner or by any

means changes any plans, drawings, designs or specifications intended to

be used or useful in constructing, manufacturing or assembling ordnance,

instruments, equipment, implements, devices or any material needed for

or intended to be used in the defense of the United States or this state

by the military or naval forces of the United States or any foreign

government with which the United States maintains diplomatic relations,

with intent to hinder, delay, obstruct, impair, destroy or interfere

with the use of such ordnance, instruments, equipment, implements,

devices or material or the efficiency or effectiveness thereof;

Is guilty of a felony and whoever attempts to commit any of the crimes

defined by this section shall be guilty of a felony and shall be liable

to one-half the maximum punishment prescribed for the completed crime.

9. In any criminal proceeding before any court, magistrate or grand

jury for a violation of this section, the court or grand jury may confer

immunity in accordance with the provisions of section 50.20 or 190.40 of

the criminal procedure law.