{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-penal-law-245.03","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Penal Law § 245.03","heading":"Public lewdness in the first degree","body":"§ 245.03 Public lewdness in the first degree.\n  A person is guilty of public lewdness in the first degree when:\n  1. being nineteen years of age or older and intending to be observed\nby a person less than sixteen years of age in a place described in\nsubdivision (a) or (b) of section 245.00 of this article, he or she\nintentionally exposes the private or intimate parts of his or her body\nin a lewd manner for the purpose of alarming or seriously annoying such\nperson, and he or she is thereby observed by such person in such place;\nor\n  2. he or she commits the crime of public lewdness, as defined in\nsection 245.00 of this article, and within the preceding year has been\nconvicted of an offense defined in such section 245.00 or this section.\n  Public lewdness in the first degree is a class A misdemeanor.","path":["Penal Law","Part 3. Specific Offenses","Title N. Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy","Article 245. Offenses Against Public Sensibilities"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/PEN/245.03","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:45Z","sha256":"92f538c313288b926b1c42a9c33f222ff85a63b4e649923f5b294620e7ad5624","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-penal-law-245.02","next":"us-ny/n.y.-penal-law-245.05"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}