Impairing the integrity of a pari-mutuel betting system in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 180.53 Impairing the integrity of a pari-mutuel betting system in
the first degree.
A person is guilty of impairing the integrity of a pari-mutuel betting system in the first degree when, with the intent to obtain either any payment for himself or for a third person or with the intent to defraud any person, and when the value of the payment exceeds one thousand five hundred dollars he:
1. Alters, changes or interferes with any equipment or device used in connection with pari-mutuel betting; or
2. Causes any false, inaccurate, delayed or unauthorized data, impulse or signal to be fed into, or transmitted over, or registered in or displayed upon any equipment or device used in connection with pari-mutuel betting.
Impairing the integrity of a pari-mutuel betting system in the first degree is a class D felony.
A person commits first-degree impairment of a pari-mutuel betting system by acting to obtain payment for anyone or to defraud someone, where the payment’s value exceeds $1,500, and:
The offense is a class D 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.