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2021 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title L - Offenses Against Public Administration
Article 195 - Official Misconduct and Obstruction of Public Servants Generally
195.10 - Refusing to Aid a Peace or a Police Officer.
Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 195.10 (2021)
§ 195.10 Refusing to aid a peace or a police officer.A person is guilty of refusing to aid a peace or a police officer when, upon command by a peace or a police officer identifiable or identified to him as such, he unreasonably fails or refuses to aid such peace or a police officer in effecting an arrest, or in preventing the commission by another person of any offense.
Refusing to aid a peace or a police officer is a class B misdemeanor.
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