2006 New York Code - Criminal Impersonation In The First Degree.



 
  § 190.26 Criminal impersonation in the first degree.
    A  person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the first degree when
  he:
    1. Pretends to be a police  officer,  or  wears  or  displays  without
  authority, any uniform, badge or other insignia or facsimile thereof, by
  which  such police officer is lawfully distinguished or expresses by his
  words or actions that he is acting with the approval or authority of any
  police department; and
    2. So acts with intent to induce another to submit to  such  pretended
  official  authority  or  otherwise to act in reliance upon said pretense
  and in the course of such pretense  commits  or  attempts  to  commit  a
  felony; or
    3.  Pretending  to  be  a  duly  licensed  physician  or  other person
  authorized to issue a prescription for any drug  or  any  instrument  or
  device  used  in  the  taking  or  administering  of  drugs  for which a
  prescription is required by law, communicates to a  pharmacist  an  oral
  prescription  which  is  required  to  be reduced to writing pursuant to
  section thirty-three hundred thirty-two of the public health law.
    Criminal impersonation in the first degree is a class E felony.

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