2019 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title I - Offenses Involving Damage to and Intrusion Upon Property
Article 145 - Criminal Mischief and Related Offenses
145.22 - Cemetery Desecration in the Second Degree.

Universal Citation:
NY Penal L § 145.22 (2019)
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§ 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.

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