2006 New York Code - Cemetery Desecration In The First Degree.



 
  § 145.23 Cemetery desecration in the first degree.
    A  person  is  guilty of cemetery desecration in the first degree when
  with intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to
  do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, he:
    (a) damages any real or personal property  maintained  as  a  cemetery
  plot,  grave,  burial place or other place of interment of human remains
  in an amount exceeding two hundred fifty dollars; or
    (b) commits the crime of cemetery desecration in the second degree  as
  defined  in  section  145.22  of  this  article  and has been previously
  convicted of the crime of cemetery  desecration  in  the  second  degree
  within the preceding five years.
    Cemetery desecration in the first degree is a class E felony.

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