2021 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title H - Offenses Against the Person Involving Physical Injury, Sexual Conduct, Restraint and Intimidation
Article 135 - Kidnapping, Coercion and Related Offenses
135.35 - Labor Trafficking.

§ 135.35 Labor trafficking.
  A  person  is  guilty  of  labor  trafficking  if he or she compels or
induces another to engage in labor or  recruits,  entices,  harbors,  or
transports such other person by means of intentionally:
  1.  requiring that the labor be performed to retire, repay, or service
a real or purported debt that the  actor  has  caused  by  a  systematic
ongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud such person;
  2.  withholding,  destroying,  or confiscating any actual or purported
passport,  immigration  document,  or  any  other  actual  or  purported
government  identification  document,  of  another person with intent to
impair said person's freedom of movement; provided, however,  that  this
subdivision  shall  not apply to an attempt to correct a social security
administration record or immigration agency record  in  accordance  with
any  local,  state, or federal agency requirement, where such attempt is
not made for the purpose of any express or implied threat;
  3. using force or engaging in any scheme, plan or pattern to compel or
induce such person to engage in or continue to engage in labor  activity
by  means of instilling a fear in such person that, if the demand is not
complied with, the  actor  or  another  will  do  one  or  more  of  the
following:
  (a)  cause  physical  injury,  serious  physical injury, or death to a
person; or
  (b) cause damage to property, other than the property of the actor; or
  (c)  engage  in  other  conduct  constituting  a  felony  or  unlawful
imprisonment in the second degree in violation of section 135.05 of this
article; or
  (d)  accuse  some  person  of  a  crime  or  cause criminal charges or
deportation proceedings to be instituted against such person;  provided,
however,  that  it  shall  be an affirmative defense to this subdivision
that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be  true
and  that  his or her sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to
take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the  subject  of
such threatened charge; or
  (e)  expose  a  secret  or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or
false, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt  or  ridicule;
or
  (f)   testify   or   provide  information  or  withhold  testimony  or
information with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or
  (g) use or abuse his or her position as a public servant by performing
some act within or related to his or her official duties, or by  failing
or  refusing  to  perform  an official duty, in such manner as to affect
some person adversely.
  Labor trafficking is a class D felony.