New York · Public reference
For general information only. This page highlights selected New York laws relevant to MYITEDU's administrative services and client safety. It is not a complete list or legal advice. Read the current law at the official source.
A listed law does not determine whether anyone committed an offense. The full law, its definitions, exceptions and the facts matter. An ordinary mistake does not automatically amount to a crime.
This selection includes the Penal Law, General Business Law and Judiciary Law. Official titles and summaries are presented in English.
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False or misleading public advertising intended to promote sales or consumption, and specified Truth in Lending advertising violations. The statute provides an affirmative defense when the false statement was made neither knowingly nor recklessly.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.20 (opens in a new tab) ↗After being warned of the consequences, knowingly giving a police or peace officer a false name, birth date or address to prevent the officer from learning the actual information.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.23 (opens in a new tab) ↗Acting as another person or a supposed representative to gain a benefit or injure or defraud; or pretending to have official authority to induce reliance. Includes specified online impersonation and unauthorized electronic-signature use with the required intent.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.25 (opens in a new tab) ↗An ongoing systematic scheme intended to defraud more than one person or obtain their property through deception, which actually obtains property from at least one of them.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.60 (opens in a new tab) ↗An ongoing fraudulent scheme meeting additional statutory conditions, such as targeting ten or more people, obtaining over $1,000 from a scheme targeting multiple people, or targeting multiple vulnerable elderly people. A separate provision covers deceptive waste disposal causing over $1,000 in damage.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.65 (opens in a new tab) ↗Stealing property. Under the related larceny definition, this involves wrongfully taking, obtaining or withholding an owner’s property with intent to deprive the owner of it or appropriate it to oneself or another.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 155.25 (opens in a new tab) ↗