2006 New York Code - Damaging Military Or Naval Equipment, Supplies Or Stores.



 
    § 238-a. Damaging  military or naval equipment, supplies or stores.  A
  person who, wilfully or maliciously:
    1. Injures or  destroys  any  article  of  equipment  or  supplies  or
  military  or  naval stores of or for the military or naval forces of the
  United States or of or for the state of  New  York  or  of  or  for  any
  foreign  government  with  which  the United States maintains diplomatic
  relations, or any article used or intended for use in the production  or
  manufacture of any such article; or
    2.  Injures  or  destroys  any  building, structure, or vessel used or
  occupied by the military or naval forces of the United States or of  the
  state  of  New  York  or of any foreign government with which the United
  States maintains diplomatic relations, or any article used  or  intended
  for use in the construction or operation of any such building, structure
  or vessel; or
    3.  Injures  or  destroys  any  building, structure, or vessel used or
  occupied in the production of any article mentioned in  subdivision  one
  of  this  section  or  any  article  used  or  intended  for  use in the
  construction or operation of any such building, structure, or vessel; or
    4. Injures or destroys any machine, tool, implement, plan, fuel,  fuel
  line,  power  line, generator or transformer used or intended for use in
  the production of any article mentioned  in  subdivisions  one,  two  or
  three of this section or used or intended to be used in the construction
  or  operation  of  any  building,  structure,  or  vessel  mentioned  in
  subdivision two or three of this  section;  or  tampers  with  any  such
  machine,  tool,  implement, plan, fuel, fuel line, power line, generator
  or transformer with intent to lessen its efficiency in the production of
  any such article; or
    5. Injures or destroys any railroad engine or car, or any vehicle,  or
  any vessel used or intended for use in the transportation of any article
  or  machine  mentioned  in  subdivision  one, two, three or four of this
  section, or tampers with any such engine, car, vehicle, or  vessel  with
  intent  to  lessen  its  efficiency  in  the  transportation of any such
  article, or with intent to hinder, delay, or obstruct  any  military  or
  naval operation or defense preparation of the United States or the state
  of  New  York  or of any foreign government with which the United States
  maintains diplomatic relations; or
    6.  Injures,  destroys,  obstructs,  or  tampers  with  any  railroad,
  highway,  bridge,  canal or river with intent to interfere with or delay
  the transportation of any article or machine mentioned  in  subdivisions
  one, two, three, four or five of this section, or with intent to hinder,
  obstruct,   or   delay  any  military  or  naval  operation  or  defense
  preparation of the United States or the state of  New  York  or  of  any
  foreign  government  with  which  the United States maintains diplomatic
  relations; or
    7. Unlawfully seizes or carries away or injures or destroys or tampers
  with any property with intent to hinder, obstruct, or delay any military
  or naval operation or defense preparation of the United  States  or  the
  state  of  New  York  or of any foreign government with which the United
  States maintains diplomatic relations; or
    8. Injuries, alters, defaces, mutilates or in any  manner  or  by  any
  means changes any plans, drawings, designs or specifications intended to
  be used or useful in constructing, manufacturing or assembling ordnance,
  instruments,  equipment,  implements, devices or any material needed for
  or intended to be used in the defense of the United States or this state
  by the military or naval forces of the  United  States  or  any  foreign
  government  with which the United States maintains diplomatic relations,
  with intent to hinder, delay, obstruct,  impair,  destroy  or  interfere
  with  the  use  of  such  ordnance,  instruments, equipment, implements,
  devices or material or the efficiency or effectiveness thereof;
    Is guilty of a felony and whoever attempts to commit any of the crimes
  defined  by this section shall be guilty of a felony and shall be liable
  to one-half the maximum punishment prescribed for the completed crime.
    9. In any criminal proceeding before any court,  magistrate  or  grand
  jury for a violation of this section, the court or grand jury may confer
  immunity in accordance with the provisions of section 50.20 or 190.40 of
  the criminal procedure law.

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