Obstructing governmental administration in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 195.07 Obstructing governmental administration in the first degree.
A person is guilty of obstructing governmental administration in the first degree when he commits the crime of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree by means of interfering with a telecommunications system thereby causing serious physical injury to another person.
Obstructing governmental administration in the first degree is a class E felony.
A person commits first-degree obstructing governmental administration by committing second-degree obstruction through interference with a telecommunications system and thereby causing serious physical injury to another person. ★ The offense is a class E 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.