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N.Y. Penal Law § 245.03: Public lewdness in the first degree

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  1. Penal Law
  2. Part 3. Specific Offenses
  3. Title N. Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy
  4. Article 245. Offenses Against Public Sensibilities

§ 245.03 Public lewdness in the first degree.

A person is guilty of public lewdness in the first degree when:

1. being nineteen years of age or older and intending to be observed

by a person less than sixteen years of age in a place described in

subdivision (a) or (b) of section 245.00 of this article, he or she

intentionally exposes the private or intimate parts of his or her body

in a lewd manner for the purpose of alarming or seriously annoying such

person, and he or she is thereby observed by such person in such place;

or

2. he or she commits the crime of public lewdness, as defined in

section 245.00 of this article, and within the preceding year has been

convicted of an offense defined in such section 245.00 or this section.

Public lewdness in the first degree is a class A misdemeanor.

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