Criminal facilitation in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 115.05 Criminal facilitation in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal facilitation in the second degree when, believing it probable that he is rendering aid to a person who intends to commit a class A felony, he engages in conduct which provides such person with means or opportunity for the commission thereof and which in fact aids such person to commit such class A felony.
Criminal facilitation in the second degree is a class C felony.
A person commits second-degree criminal facilitation by believing it probable that the person is aiding someone who intends a class A felony, and providing means or opportunity that actually helps that person commit the felony. ★ It is a class C 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.