2012 New York Consolidated Laws
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
145.22 - Cemetery desecration in the second degree.

 
  § 145.22 Cemetery desecration in the second degree.
    A  person is guilty of cemetery desecration in the second degree when:
  (a) with intent to damage property of  another  person,  and  having  no
  right  to  do  so  nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such
  right, he damages any real or personal property maintained as a cemetery
  plot, grave, burial place or other place of interment of human  remains;
  or
    (b)  with  intent  to  steal  personal  property,  he  steals personal
  property which is located at a cemetery plot,  grave,  burial  place  or
  other place of interment of human remains and which property is owned by
  the  person  or  organization  which maintains or owns such place or the
  estate, next-of-kin or representatives of the deceased  person  interred
  there.
    Cemetery desecration in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.