2010 New York Code
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title I - OFFENSES INVOLVING DAMAGE TO AND INTRUSION UPON PROPERTY
Article 145 - (145.00 - 145.70) CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND RELATED OFFENSES
145.20 - Criminal tampering in the first degree.

§ 145.20 Criminal tampering in the first degree.
    A  person  is  guilty  of criminal tampering in the first degree when,
  with intent to cause a  substantial  interruption  or  impairment  of  a
  service  rendered  to  the  public, and having no right to do so nor any
  reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such right,  he  or  she
  damages  or  tampers  with  property of a gas, electric, sewer, steam or
  water-works corporation,  telephone  or  telegraph  corporation,  common
  carrier, nuclear powered electric generating facility, or public utility
  operated  by  a  municipality  or  district,  and  thereby  causes  such
  substantial interruption or impairment of service.
    Criminal tampering in the first degree is a class D felony.

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