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2014 New York 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
235.10 - Obscenity; presumptions.

NY Penal L § 235.10 (2014) What's This?
235.10 Obscenity; presumptions.

1.  A  person  who promotes or wholesale promotes obscene material, or
  possesses the same with intent to promote or wholesale  promote  it,  in
  the  course  of  his business is presumed to do so with knowledge of its
  content and character.

2. A person who possesses six or more  identical  or  similar  obscene
  articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.

The  provisions of this section shall not apply to public libraries or
  association libraries as defined  in  subdivision  two  of  section  two
  hundred  fifty-three  of  the education law, or trustees or employees of
  such public libraries or association libraries when acting in the course
  and scope of their duties or employment.

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