2023 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title O - Offenses Against Marriage, the Family, and the Welfare of Children and Incompetents
Article 260 - Offenses Relating to Children, Disabled Persons and Vulnerable Elderly Persons
260.06 - Non-Support of a Child in the First Degree.

§ 260.06 Non-support of a child in the first degree.
A person is guilty of non-support of a child in the first degree when:
1.  (a)  being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with
the care or custody of a child less than sixteen years old,  he  or  she
fails or refuses without lawful excuse to provide support for such child
when he or she is able to do so; or
  (b)  being  a parent, guardian or other person obligated to make child
support payments by an order of child support  entered  by  a  court  of
competent  jurisdiction  for a child less than eighteen years old, he or
she fails or refuses without lawful excuse to provide support  for  such
child when he or she is able to do so; and
2. he or she has previously been convicted in the preceding five years
of  a crime defined in section 260.05 of this article or a crime defined
by the provisions of this section.
Non-support of a child in the first degree is a class E felony.