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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31 laws found · Showing 13–24
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) ↗Knowingly assuming another person’s identity with fraudulent intent and thereby obtaining property, services or credit, causing financial loss, or committing a class A misdemeanor or more serious crime.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.78 (opens in a new tab) ↗Knowingly assuming another identity with fraudulent intent and meeting additional conditions: benefits or loss over $500, specified involvement in a felony, or third-degree identity theft with a listed conviction in the preceding five years.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.79 (opens in a new tab) ↗Knowingly assuming another identity with fraudulent intent and meeting additional conditions: benefits or loss over $2,000, specified involvement in a class D felony or higher crime, or second-degree identity theft with a listed conviction in the preceding five years.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.80 (opens in a new tab) ↗Knowingly possessing specified information belonging to another person, such as account codes, passwords, electronic signatures or listed biometric identifiers, while knowing it is intended to further a Penal Law crime. Ordinary authorized recordkeeping alone is not this offense.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 190.81 (opens in a new tab) ↗Knowingly using or accessing a computer, computer service or network without authorization, including causing such use.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 156.05 (opens in a new tab) ↗Knowing unauthorized computer use or access combined with intent to commit, attempt or further a felony, or resulting in knowing access to “computer material,” a term specifically defined by the law.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 156.10 (opens in a new tab) ↗Unauthorized computer use or access combined with intentionally changing or destroying another person’s computer data or program.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 156.20 (opens in a new tab) ↗Unlawful wiretapping, mechanical overhearing, or interception or access to electronic communications. The related definitions require intentional conduct and specify consent conditions and exceptions; this does not make every recording an offense.
Read official law: NY Penal Law § 250.05 (opens in a new tab) ↗