N.Y. Penal Law § 135.35: Labor trafficking

§ 135.35 Labor trafficking.

A person is guilty of labor trafficking if he or she compels or

induces another to engage in labor or recruits, entices, harbors, or

transports such other person by means of intentionally:

1. requiring that the labor be performed to retire, repay, or service

a real or purported debt that the actor has caused by a systematic

ongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud such person;

2. withholding, destroying, or confiscating any actual or purported

passport, immigration document, or any other actual or purported

government identification document, of another person with intent to

impair said person's freedom of movement; provided, however, that this

subdivision shall not apply to an attempt to correct a social security

administration record or immigration agency record in accordance with

any local, state, or federal agency requirement, where such attempt is

not made for the purpose of any express or implied threat;

3. using force or engaging in any scheme, plan or pattern to compel or

induce such person to engage in or continue to engage in labor activity

by means of instilling a fear in such person that, if the demand is not

complied with, the actor or another will do one or more of the

following:

(a) cause physical injury, serious physical injury, or death to a

person; or

(b) cause damage to property, other than the property of the actor; or

(c) engage in other conduct constituting a felony or unlawful

imprisonment in the second degree in violation of section 135.05 of this

article; or

(d) accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or

deportation proceedings to be instituted against such person; provided,

however, that it shall be an affirmative defense to this subdivision

that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true

and that his or her sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to

take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of

such threatened charge; or

(e) expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or

false, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt or ridicule;

or

(f) testify or provide information or withhold testimony or

information with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or

(g) use or abuse his or her position as a public servant by performing

some act within or related to his or her official duties, or by failing

or refusing to perform an official duty, in such manner as to affect

some person adversely.

Labor trafficking is a class D felony.