2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title M - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS
Article 235 - (235.00 - 235.24) OBSCENITY AND RELATED OFFENSES
235.15 - Obscenity or disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree; defense.

 
  §  235.15  Obscenity or disseminating indecent material to minors in the
  second degree; defense.
    1.  In  any  prosecution  for  obscenity,  or  disseminating  indecent
  material  to  minors  in  the  second degree in violation of subdivision
  three of section 235.21 of this article, it is  an  affirmative  defense
  that  the  persons  to whom allegedly obscene   or indecent material was
  disseminated, or the  audience  to  an  allegedly  obscene  performance,
  consisted  of  persons  or  institutions having scientific, educational,
  governmental   or   other   similar   justification   for    possessing,
  disseminating or viewing the same.
    2.    In  any  prosecution for obscenity, it is an affirmative defense
  that the person so charged was a  motion  picture  projectionist,  stage
  employee  or  spotlight  operator,  cashier, doorman, usher, candy stand
  attendant, porter or in  any  other  non-managerial  or  non-supervisory
  capacity  in  a  motion  picture  theatre;  provided he has no financial
  interest, other than his employment, which employment does not encompass
  compensation based upon any proportion of the  gross  receipts,  in  the
  promotion  of  obscene material for sale, rental or exhibition or in the
  promotion, presentation or direction of any obscene performance,  or  is
  in  any  way responsible for acquiring obscene material for sale, rental
  or exhibition.