2021 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title K - Offenses Involving Fraud
Article 175 - Offenses Involving False Written Statements
175.35 - Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree.

§ 175.35 Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
  A  person  is  guilty of offering a false instrument for filing in the
first degree when:
  1. knowing that a written instrument contains  a  false  statement  or
false information, and with intent to defraud the state or any political
subdivision,  public  authority  or  public  benefit  corporation of the
state, he or she offers or  presents  it  to  a  public  office,  public
servant,  public  authority  or  public  benefit  corporation  with  the
knowledge or belief that it will be filed with, registered  or  recorded
in  or  otherwise  become  a  part of the records of such public office,
public servant, public authority or public benefit corporation; or
  2. (a) he or she commits the crime of offering a false instrument  for
filing in the second degree; and
  (b) such instrument is a financing statement the contents of which are
prescribed  by  section  9--502  of  the  uniform  commercial  code, the
collateral asserted to be covered in such statement is the property of a
person who is a state or local officer as defined by section two of  the
public  officers  law  or  who  otherwise  is  a judge or justice of the
unified court system, such financing statement does  not  relate  to  an
actual  transaction,  and  he  or  she filed such financing statement in
retaliation for the performance of official duties by such person.
  Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree is a  class
E felony.