N.Y. Penal Law § 5.10: Other limitations on applicability of this chapter

§ 5.10 Other limitations on applicability of this chapter.

1. Except as otherwise provided, the procedure governing the

accusation, prosecution, conviction and punishment of offenders and

offenses is not regulated by this chapter but by the criminal procedure

law.

2. This chapter does not affect any power conferred by law upon any

court-martial or other military authority or officer to prosecute and

punish conduct and offenders violating military codes or laws.

3. This chapter does not bar, suspend, or otherwise affect any right

or liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture or other remedy authorized

by law to be recovered or enforced in a civil action, regardless of

whether the conduct involved in such civil action constitutes an offense

defined in this chapter.

4. Sections 120.45, 120.50, 120.55, 120.60 and 240.25, subdivisions

two and three of section 240.26, and sections 240.70 and 240.71 of this

chapter (a) do not apply to conduct which is otherwise lawful under the

provisions of the National Labor Relations Act as amended, the National

Railway Labor Act as amended, or the Federal Employment Labor Management

Act as amended, and (b) do not bar any conduct, including, but not

limited to, peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration,

protected from legal prohibition by the federal and state constitutions.