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N.Y. Penal Law § 250.60: Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image 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 250. Offenses Against the Right to Privacy

§ 250.60 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the first

degree.

A person is guilty of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image

in the first degree when:

1. He or she, with knowledge of the unlawful conduct by which an image

or images of the sexual or other intimate parts of another person or

persons were obtained and such unlawful conduct would satisfy the

essential elements of the crime of unlawful surveillance in the first or

second degree, as defined, respectively, in section 250.50 or 250.45 of

this article, sells or publishes such image or images; or

2. Having created a surveillance image in violation of section 250.45

or 250.50 of this article, or in violation of the law in any other

jurisdiction which includes all of the essential elements of either such

crime, or having acted as an accomplice to such crime, or acting as an

agent to the person who committed such crime, he or she intentionally

disseminates such unlawfully created image; or

3. He or she commits the crime of dissemination of an unlawful

surveillance image in the second degree and has been previously

convicted within the past ten years of dissemination of an unlawful

surveillance image in the first or second degree.

Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the first degree is

a class E felony.

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