Tampering with a consumer product in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 145.40 Tampering with a consumer product in the second degree.
A person is guilty of tampering with a consumer product in the second degree when, having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, and with intent to cause physical injury to another or with intent to instill in another a fear that he will cause such physical injury, he alters, adulterates or otherwise contaminates a consumer product.
Tampering with a consumer product in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
A person commits second-degree consumer-product tampering by altering, adulterating, or otherwise contaminating a consumer product, without a right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe there is one, intending to cause physical injury to another or to make another fear such injury. ★ It is a class A misdemeanor.
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.