2010 New York Code
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title P - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY
Article 265 - (265.00 - 265.40) FIREARMS AND OTHER DANGEROUS WEAPONS
265.35 - Prohibited use of weapons.

§ 265.35 Prohibited use of weapons.
    1.  Any  person  hunting  with a dangerous weapon in any county wholly
  embraced within the territorial limits of a city is guilty of a class  A
  misdemeanor.
    2.  Any  person  who wilfully discharges a loaded firearm or any other
  gun, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, at  an  aircraft  while
  such  aircraft  is  in motion in the air or in motion or stationary upon
  the ground, or at any railway or street railroad train as defined by the
  public service law, or at a locomotive, car, bus or vehicle standing  or
  moving  upon  such  railway,  railroad or public highway, is guilty of a
  class D felony if thereby the safety of any person is endangered, and in
  every other case, of a class E felony.
    3. Any person who, otherwise than in self defense or in the  discharge
  of  official  duty,  (a)  wilfully  discharges  any species of firearms,
  air-gun or other weapon, or throws any other deadly missile, either in a
  public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered
  thereby, or, in Putnam county, within one-quarter mile of  any  occupied
  school  building  other  than  under  supervised instruction by properly
  authorized instructors although no injury  to  any  person  ensues;  (b)
  intentionally,  without  malice, points or aims any firearm or any other
  gun, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, at or toward any  other
  person;  (c) discharges, without injury to any other person, firearms or
  any other guns, the  propelling  force  of  which  is  gunpowder,  while
  intentionally  without  malice,  aimed  at  or toward any person; or (d)
  maims or injures any other person by the discharge of any firearm or any
  other gun, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, pointed or  aimed
  intentionally,  but  without  malice, at any such person, is guilty of a
  class A misdemeanor.

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