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2014 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title O - OFFENSES AGAINST MARRIAGE, THE FAMILY, AND THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND INCOMPETENTS
Article 255 - (255.00 - 255.30) OFFENSES AFFECTING THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP
255.20 - Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery: defense.

NY Penal L § 255.20 (2014) What's This?
255.20  Unlawfully  procuring  a  marriage license, bigamy, adultery:

         defense.

In any  prosecution  for  unlawfully  procuring  a  marriage  license,
  bigamy,  or  adultery,  it  is an affirmative defense that the defendant
  acted under a reasonable belief that both he and the other person to the
  marriage or prospective marriage or to the sexual  intercourse,  as  the
  case may be, were unmarried.

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