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N.Y. Penal Law § 140.15: Criminal trespass in the second degree

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  1. Penal Law
  2. Part 3. Specific Offenses
  3. Title I. Offenses Involving Damage to and Intrusion Upon Property
  4. Article 140. Burglary and Related Offenses

§ 140.15 Criminal trespass in the second degree.

A person is guilty of criminal trespass in the second degree when:

1. he or she knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling; or

2. being a person required to maintain registration under article

six-C of the correction law and designated a level two or level three

offender pursuant to subdivision six of section one hundred

sixty-eight-l of the correction law, he or she enters or remains in a

public or private elementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high,

vocational or high school knowing that the victim of the offense for

which such registration is required attends or formerly attended such

school. It shall not be an offense subject to prosecution under this

subdivision if: the person is a lawfully registered student at such

school; the person is a lawful student participant in a school sponsored

event; the person is a parent or a legal guardian of a lawfully

registered student at such school and enters the school for the purpose

of attending their child's or dependent's event or activity; such school

is the person's designated polling place and he or she enters such

school building for the limited purpose of voting; or if the person

enters such school building for the limited purposes authorized by the

superintendent or chief administrator of such school.

Criminal trespass in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.

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