Adds to the crime of public lewdness the electronic transmission of an image depicting exposed private or intimate parts without the consent of the recipient.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1093
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SEAWRIGHT, DINOWITZ, BRONSON, BUTTENS-
CHON, SIMON, ROZIC, WILLIAMS, ZINERMAN, WOERNER, JENSEN, GLICK,
GIGLIO, ANDERSON, JACKSON, STERN, SEPTIMO, SMITH, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
STIRPE, GALLAGHER, KELLES, CLARK, CRUZ, ROSENTHAL, McMAHON -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. HEVESI, STECK -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of public lewd-
ness
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 245.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 748
2 of the laws of 1968 and the opening paragraph as amended by chapter 373
3 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 245.00 Public lewdness.
5 A person is guilty of public lewdness when [he or she] such person
6 intentionally [exposes]:
7 1. Expose the private or intimate parts of [his or her] such person's
8 body in a lewd manner or [commits] commit any other lewd act: (a) in a
9 public place, or (b) (i) in private premises under circumstances in
10 which [he or she] such person may readily be observed from either a
11 public place or from other private premises, and with intent that [he or
12 she] such person be so observed, or (ii) while trespassing, as defined
13 in section 140.05 of this part, in a dwelling, as defined in subdivision
14 three of section 140.00 of this part, under circumstances in which [he
15 or she] such person is observed by a lawful occupant[.]; or
16 2. Electronically transmit to one or more persons in or around a
17 public place an image depicting exposed private or intimate parts, with-
18 out the consent of such person or persons.
19 Public lewdness is a class B misdemeanor.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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