2010 New York Code
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title N - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, PUBLIC SENSIBILITIES AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY
Article 240 - (240.00 - 240.73) OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
240.70 - Criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the second degree.

§  240.70  Criminal  interference with health care services or religious
             worship in the second degree.
    1. A person is guilty of criminal interference with health services or
  religious worship in the second degree when:
    (a) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, he or  she
  intentionally  injures,  intimidates  or interferes with, or attempts to
  injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person because such  other
  person was or is obtaining or providing reproductive health services; or
    (b)  by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, he or she
  intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,  or  attempts  to
  injure,  intimidate  or  interfere  with,  another  person  in  order to
  discourage such other  person  or  any  other  person  or  persons  from
  obtaining or providing reproductive health services; or
    (c)  by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, he or she
  intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,  or  attempts  to
  injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person because such person
  was  or is seeking to exercise the right of religious freedom at a place
  of religious worship; or
    (d) he or she intentionally damages the  property  of  a  health  care
  facility,   or  attempts  to  do  so,  because  such  facility  provides
  reproductive health services, or intentionally damages the property of a
  place of religious worship.
    2. A parent or legal guardian of a  minor  shall  not  be  subject  to
  prosecution  for conduct otherwise prohibited by paragraph (a) or (b) of
  subdivision one of this section which is directed  exclusively  at  such
  minor.
    3. For purposes of this section:
    (a)  the  term  "health  care  facility"  means  a  hospital,  clinic,
  physician's office or other facility that provides  reproductive  health
  services,  and  includes the building or structure in which the facility
  is located;
    (b) the term "interferes with" means to restrict a person's freedom of
  movement;
    (c) the term "intimidates" means  to  place  a  person  in  reasonable
  apprehension  of  physical  injury  to  himself or herself or to another
  person;
    (d) the term "physical obstruction" means rendering impassable ingress
  to or egress from a facility that provides reproductive health  services
  or  to  or from a place of religious worship, or rendering passage to or
  from  such  a  facility  or  place  of  religious  worship  unreasonably
  difficult or hazardous; and
    (e) the term "reproductive health services" means health care services
  provided in a hospital, clinic, physician's office or other facility and
  includes  medical, surgical, counseling or referral services relating to
  the human reproductive system, including services relating to  pregnancy
  or the termination of a pregnancy.
    Criminal  interference  with health care services or religious worship
  in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.

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