Conspiracy in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 105.17 Conspiracy in the first degree.
A person is guilty of conspiracy in the first degree when, with intent that conduct constituting a class A felony be performed, he, being over eighteen years of age, agrees with one or more persons under sixteen years of age to engage in or cause the performance of such conduct.
Conspiracy in the first degree is a class A-I felony.
A person over 18 commits first-degree conspiracy by agreeing with 1 or more people under 16 to engage in or cause conduct constituting a class A felony, intending that conduct occur. ★ It is a class A-I felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.