2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title N - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, PUBLIC SENSIBILITIES AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY
Article 245 - (245.00 - 245.11) OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC SENSIBILITIES
245.02 - Promoting the exposure of a person.


NY Penal L § 245.02 (2012) What's This?
 
  § 245.02 Promoting the exposure of a person.
    A  person  is  guilty  of  promoting  the exposure of a person when he
  knowingly conducts, maintains, owns, manages, operates or furnishes  any
  public premise or place where a person in a public place appears in such
  a manner that the private or intimate parts of his body are unclothed or
  exposed.  For purposes of this section, the private or intimate parts of
  a female person shall include that portion of the breast which is  below
  the top of the areola. This section shall not apply to the breastfeeding
  of  infants  or  to  any  person  entertaining  or performing in a play,
  exhibition, show or entertainment.
    Promoting the exposure of a person is a violation.
    Nothing in this section shall prevent the adoption by a city, town  or
  village   of   a   local  law  prohibiting  the  exposure  of  a  person
  substantially as herein defined in a public place, at any time,  whether
  or  not such person is entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition,
  show or entertainment.

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