STATE OF NEW YORK
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4983
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of exposure of a
person
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 245.01 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 633
2 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 245.01 Exposure of a person.
4 A person is guilty of exposure if he or she appears in a public place
5 in such a manner that the private or intimate parts of his or her body
6 are unclothed or exposed. For purposes of this section, the private or
7 intimate parts of a female or male person shall include that portion of
8 the breast which is below the top of the areola. This section shall not
9 apply to the breastfeeding of infants or [to any person entertaining or
10 performing in a play, exhibition, show or entertainment] to any person
11 at a beach or pool.
12 Exposure of a person is a violation.
13 Nothing in this section shall prevent the adoption by a city, town or
14 village of a local law prohibiting exposure of a person as herein
15 defined in a public place, at any time[, whether or not such person is
16 entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition, show or enter-
17 tainment].
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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