N.Y. Penal Law § 190.26: Criminal impersonation in the first degree

§ 190.26 Criminal impersonation in the first degree.

A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the first degree when

he:

1. Pretends to be a police officer or a federal law enforcement

officer as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law, or

wears or displays without authority, any uniform, badge or other

insignia or facsimile thereof, by which such police officer or federal

law enforcement officer is lawfully distinguished or expresses by his or

her words or actions that he or she is acting with the approval or

authority of any police department or acting as a federal law

enforcement officer with the approval of any agency that employs federal

law enforcement officers as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal

procedure law; and

2. So acts with intent to induce another to submit to such pretended

official authority or otherwise to act in reliance upon said pretense

and in the course of such pretense commits or attempts to commit a

felony; or

3. Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person

authorized to issue a prescription for any drug or any instrument or

device used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a

prescription is required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral

prescription which is required to be reduced to writing pursuant to

section thirty-three hundred thirty-two of the public health law.

Criminal impersonation in the first degree is a class E felony.