New York Penal Law

Every section of the New York Penal Law, in order — 898 sections. Source: NY Senate Open Legislation, current through November 4, 2026.

• N.Y. Penal Law § 1.00 — Short title
• N.Y. Penal Law § 1.05 — General purposes
• N.Y. Penal Law § 5.00 — Penal law not strictly construed
• N.Y. Penal Law § 5.05 — Application of chapter to offenses committed before and after enactment
• N.Y. Penal Law § 5.10 — Other limitations on applicability of this chapter
• N.Y. Penal Law § 10.00 — Definitions of terms of general use in this chapter
• N.Y. Penal Law § 15.00 — Culpability; definitions of terms
• N.Y. Penal Law § 15.05 — Culpability; definitions of culpable mental states
• N.Y. Penal Law § 15.10 — Requirements for criminal liability in general and for offenses of strict liability and mental culpability
• N.Y. Penal Law § 15.15 — Construction of statutes with respect to culpability requirements
• N.Y. Penal Law § 15.20 — Effect of ignorance or mistake upon liability
• N.Y. Penal Law § 15.25 — Effect of intoxication upon liability
• N.Y. Penal Law § 20.00 — Criminal liability for conduct of another
• N.Y. Penal Law § 20.05 — Criminal liability for conduct of another; no defense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 20.10 — Criminal liability for conduct of another; exemption
• N.Y. Penal Law § 20.15 — Convictions for different degrees of offense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 20.20 — Criminal liability of corporations
• N.Y. Penal Law § 20.25 — Criminal liability of an individual for corporate conduct
• N.Y. Penal Law § 25.00 — Defenses; burden of proof
• N.Y. Penal Law § 30.00 — Infancy
• N.Y. Penal Law § 35.00 — Justification; a defense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 35.05 — Justification; generally
• N.Y. Penal Law § 35.10 — Justification; use of physical force generally
• N.Y. Penal Law § 35.15 — Justification; use of physical force in defense of a person
• N.Y. Penal Law § 35.20 — Justification; use of physical force in defense of premises and in defense of a person in the course of burglary
• N.Y. Penal Law § 35.25 — Justification; use of physical force to prevent or terminate larceny or criminal mischief
• N.Y. Penal Law § 35.27 — Justification; use of physical force in resisting arrest prohibited
• N.Y. Penal Law § 35.30 — Justification; use of physical force in making an arrest or in preventing an escape
• N.Y. Penal Law § 40.00 — Duress
• N.Y. Penal Law § 40.05 — Entrapment
• N.Y. Penal Law § 40.10 — Renunciation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 40.15 — Mental disease or defect
• N.Y. Penal Law § 55.00 — Applicability of article
• N.Y. Penal Law § 55.05 — Classifications of felonies and misdemeanors
• N.Y. Penal Law § 55.10 — Designation of offenses
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.00 — Applicability of provisions
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.01 — Authorized dispositions; generally
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.02 — Authorized disposition; youthful offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.04 — Authorized disposition; controlled substances and marihuana felony offenses
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.05 — Authorized dispositions; other class A, B, certain C and D felonies and multiple felony offenders
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.06 — Authorized disposition; murder in the first degree offenders; aggravated murder offenders; certain murder in the second degree offenders;...
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.07 — Authorized disposition; criminal attack on operators of for-hire vehicles
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.08 — Authorized dispositions; resentencing of certain controlled substance offenders
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.09 — Authorized dispositions; resentencing of certain persons convicted of specified controlled substance offenses
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.10 — Authorized disposition; juvenile offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.10-a — Authorized disposition; adolescent offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.11 — Authorized dispositions; criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.11-a — Authorized dispositions; certain criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree offenders
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.12 — Authorized disposition; alternative sentence; domestic violence cases
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.13 — Authorized dispositions; felony sex offenses
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.20 — Authorized dispositions; traffic infraction
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.21 — Authorized dispositions; driving while intoxicated or aggravated driving while intoxicated
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.25 — Authorized dispositions; corporation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.27 — Restitution and reparation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.28 — Authorized disposition; making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.29 — Authorized disposition; cemetery desecration
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.30 — Civil penalties
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.35 — Mandatory surcharge, sex offender registration fee, DNA databank fee, supplemental sex offender victim fee and crime victim assistance fe...
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.36 — Authorized dispositions; driving while intoxicated offenses
• N.Y. Penal Law § 60.37 — Authorized disposition; certain offenses
• N.Y. Penal Law § 65.00 — Sentence of probation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 65.05 — Sentence of conditional discharge
• N.Y. Penal Law § 65.10 — Conditions of probation and of conditional discharge
• N.Y. Penal Law § 65.15 — Calculation of periods of probation and of conditional discharge
• N.Y. Penal Law § 65.20 — Sentence of unconditional discharge
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.00 — Sentence of imprisonment for felony
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.02 — Sentence of imprisonment for a violent felony offense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.04 — Sentence of imprisonment for second violent felony offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.05 — Sentence of imprisonment for juvenile offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.06 — Sentence of imprisonment for second felony offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.07 — Sentence of imprisonment for second child sexual assault felony offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.08 — Sentence of imprisonment for persistent violent felony offender; criteria
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.10 — Sentence of imprisonment for persistent felony offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.15 — Sentences of imprisonment for misdemeanors and violation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.20 — Place of imprisonment
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.25 — Concurrent and consecutive terms of imprisonment
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.30 — Calculation of terms of imprisonment
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.35 — Merger of certain definite and indeterminate or determinate sentences
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.40 — Release on parole; conditional release; presumptive release
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.45 — Determinate sentence; post-release supervision
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.70 — Sentence of imprisonment for felony drug offender other than a class A felony
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.71 — Sentence of imprisonment for a class A felony drug offender
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.80 — Sentences of imprisonment for conviction of a felony sex offense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 70.85 — Transitional exception to determinate sentencing laws
• N.Y. Penal Law § 80.00 — Fine for felony
• N.Y. Penal Law § 80.05 — Fines for misdemeanors and violation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 80.10 — Fines for corporations
• N.Y. Penal Law § 80.15 — Multiple offenses
• N.Y. Penal Law § 85.00 — Sentence of intermittent imprisonment
• N.Y. Penal Law § 85.05 — Modification and revocation of sentences of intermittent imprisonment
• N.Y. Penal Law § 85.10 — Commitment; notifications; warrants
• N.Y. Penal Law § 85.15 — Subsequent sentences
• N.Y. Penal Law § 100.00 — Criminal solicitation in the fifth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 100.05 — Criminal solicitation in the fourth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 100.08 — Criminal solicitation in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 100.10 — Criminal solicitation in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 100.13 — Criminal solicitation in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 100.15 — Criminal solicitation; no defense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 100.20 — Criminal solicitation; exemption
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.00 — Conspiracy in the sixth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.05 — Conspiracy in the fifth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.10 — Conspiracy in the fourth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.13 — Conspiracy in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.15 — Conspiracy in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.17 — Conspiracy in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.20 — Conspiracy; pleading and proof; necessity of overt act
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.25 — Conspiracy; jurisdiction and venue
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.30 — Conspiracy; no defense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 105.35 — Conspiracy; enterprise corruption: applicability
• N.Y. Penal Law § 110.00 — Attempt to commit a crime
• N.Y. Penal Law § 110.05 — Attempt to commit a crime; punishment
• N.Y. Penal Law § 110.10 — Attempt to commit a crime; no defense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 115.00 — Criminal facilitation in the fourth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 115.01 — Criminal facilitation in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 115.05 — Criminal facilitation in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 115.08 — Criminal facilitation in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 115.10 — Criminal facilitation; no defense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 115.15 — Criminal facilitation; corroboration
• N.Y. Penal Law § 115.20 — Criminal facilitation; definitions and construction
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.00 — Assault in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.01 — Reckless assault of a child by a child day care provider
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.02 — Reckless assault of a child
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.03 — Vehicular assault in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.04 — Vehicular assault in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.04-a — Aggravated vehicular assault
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.05 — Assault in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.06 — Gang assault in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.07 — Gang assault in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.08 — Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter or emergency medical services professional
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.09 — Assault on a judge
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.09-a — Aggravated assault on a judge
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.10 — Assault in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.11 — Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.12 — Aggravated assault upon a person less than eleven years old
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.13 — Menacing in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.14 — Menacing in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.15 — Menacing in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.16 — Hazing in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.17 — Hazing in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.18 — Menacing a police officer or peace officer
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.19 — Assault on a retail worker
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.20 — Reckless endangerment in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.25 — Reckless endangerment in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.30 — Promoting a suicide attempt
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.35 — Promoting a suicide attempt; when punishable as attempt to commit murder
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.40 — Definitions
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.45 — Stalking in the fourth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.50 — Stalking in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.55 — Stalking in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.60 — Stalking in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 120.70 — Luring a child
• N.Y. Penal Law § 121.11 — Criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 121.12 — Strangulation in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 121.13 — Strangulation in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 121.13-a — Aggravated strangulation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 121.14 — Medical or dental purpose
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.00 — Homicide defined
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.05 — Homicide and related offenses; definition
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.10 — Criminally negligent homicide
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.11 — Aggravated criminally negligent homicide
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.12 — Vehicular manslaughter in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.13 — Vehicular manslaughter in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.14 — Aggravated vehicular homicide
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.15 — Manslaughter in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.20 — Manslaughter in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.21 — Aggravated manslaughter in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.22 — Aggravated manslaughter in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.25 — Murder in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.26 — Aggravated murder
• N.Y. Penal Law § 125.27 — Murder in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.00 — Sex offenses; definitions of terms
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.05 — Sex offenses; lack of consent
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.10 — Sex offenses; limitation; defenses
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.16 — Sex offenses; corroboration
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.20 — Sexual misconduct
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.25 — Rape in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.30 — Rape in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.35 — Rape in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.52 — Forcible touching
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.53 — Persistent sexual abuse
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.55 — Sexual abuse in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.60 — Sexual abuse in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.65 — Sexual abuse in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.65-a — Aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.66 — Aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.67 — Aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.70 — Aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.75 — Course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.80 — Course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.85 — Female genital mutilation
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.90 — Facilitating a sex offense with a controlled substance
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.91 — Sexually motivated felony
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.92 — Sentencing
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.95 — Predatory sexual assault
• N.Y. Penal Law § 130.96 — Predatory sexual assault against a child
• N.Y. Penal Law § 135.00 — Unlawful imprisonment, kidnapping and custodial interference; definitions of terms
• N.Y. Penal Law § 135.05 — Unlawful imprisonment in the second degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 135.10 — Unlawful imprisonment in the first degree
• N.Y. Penal Law § 135.15 — Unlawful imprisonment; defense
• N.Y. Penal Law § 135.20 — Kidnapping in the second degree