N.Y. Penal Law § 240.00: Offenses against public order; definitions of terms

§ 240.00 Offenses against public order; definitions of terms.

The following definitions are applicable to this article:

1. "Public place" means a place to which the public or a substantial

group of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to,

highways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement,

parks, playgrounds, community centers, and hallways, lobbies and other

portions of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or

apartments designed for actual residence.

2. "Transportation facility" means any conveyance, premises or place

used for or in connection with public passenger transportation, whether

by air, railroad, motor vehicle or any other method. It includes

aircraft, watercraft, railroad cars, buses, school buses as defined in

section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law, and air,

boat, railroad and bus terminals and stations and all appurtenances

thereto.

3. "School grounds" means in or on or within any building, structure,

school bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle

and traffic law, athletic playing field, playground or land contained

within the real property boundary line of a public or private

elementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational or high

school.

4. "Hazardous substance" shall mean any physical, chemical,

microbiological or radiological substance or matter which, because of

its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious

characteristics, may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in

mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating

reversible illness, or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to

human health.

5. "Age" means sixty years old or more.

6. "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that

substantially limits a major life activity.

7. "Gender identity or expression" means a person's actual or

perceived gender-related identity, appearance, behavior, expression, or

other gender-related characteristic regardless of the sex assigned to

that person at birth, including, but not limited to, the status of being

transgender.

8. "Place of religious worship" means any building or structure that a

reasonable person would know that religious adherents collectively

recognize as a place to regularly gather for or hold religious services,

observance, prayer, assembly, education, instruction, or devotional

practice, including community centers, and shall include its entrance,

entryway, exit, parking lot, parking lot entrance, driveway, driveway

entrance, or sidewalk that touches such places.