N.Y. Penal Law § 215.50: Criminal contempt in the second degree

§ 215.50 Criminal contempt in the second degree.

A person is guilty of criminal contempt in the second degree when he

engages in any of the following conduct:

1. Disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behavior, committed during

the sitting of a court, in its immediate view and presence and directly

tending to interrupt its proceedings or to impair the respect due to its

authority; or

2. Breach of the peace, noise, or other disturbance, directly tending

to interrupt a court's proceedings; or

3. Intentional disobedience or resistance to the lawful process or

other mandate of a court except in cases involving or growing out of

labor disputes as defined by subdivision two of section seven hundred

fifty-three-a of the judiciary law; or

4. Contumacious and unlawful refusal to be sworn as a witness in any

court proceeding or, after being sworn, to answer any legal and proper

interrogatory; or

5. Knowingly publishing a false or grossly inaccurate report of a

court's proceedings; or

6. Intentional failure to obey any mandate, process or notice, issued

pursuant to articles sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, or eighteen-a of the

judiciary law, or to rules adopted pursuant to any such statute or to

any special statute establishing commissioners of jurors and prescribing

their duties or who refuses to be sworn as provided therein; or

7. On or along a public street or sidewalk within a radius of two

hundred feet of any building established as a courthouse, he calls

aloud, shouts, holds or displays placards or signs containing written or

printed matter, concerning the conduct of a trial being held in such

courthouse or the character of the court or jury engaged in such trial

or calling for or demanding any specified action or determination by

such court or jury in connection with such trial.

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