N.Y. Defense Emergency Act 1951 § 101 — Violations and penalties

§ 101. Violations and penalties. 1. Any person who shall wilfully violate or disobey any regulation or order concerning the guarding and protection of water supplies, railroads, public utility property, bridges, docks, highways, landing fields, airports, public buildings, factories, plants, stockpiles, vital and strategic materials, and other focal points of possible attack, the loss or destruction of which might menace or endanger the security and safety of the civilian population, impede the military forces or impede the defense effort, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

2. Any person who shall violate or disobey any duly promulgated regulation or order, or who shall wilfully violate or disobey any official order by a person duly authorized, concerning (a) the effective screening or extinguishment of all lights, lighting devices and appliances, or (b) the conduct of civilians and the movement and cessation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

3. Any person who shall without authority wear or display any official brassard or insignia indicative of membership in a municipal or volunteer agency shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

4. Except for the purpose of any authorized test or drill, any person who shall wilfully utter any false air raid alarm, signal or warning or who shall wilfully simulate any official air raid signal or warning or who shall wilfully break, injure or remove any mechanical warning or signal devices used therefor, shall be guilty of a felony.

5. Any person who shall wilfully violate or disobey any regulation or order duly promulgated pursuant to this act, for which a person is not declared to be guilty of either a misdemeanor or an infraction by this act shall be guilty of an infraction.

6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to exempt persons to the extent prescribed by regulation or order of the council or commission.