Obstructing emergency medical services · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 195.16 Obstructing emergency medical services.
A person is guilty of obstructing emergency medical services when he or she intentionally and unreasonably obstructs the efforts of any service, technician, personnel, system or unit specified in section three thousand one of the public health law in the performance of their duties.
Obstructing emergency medical services is a class A misdemeanor.
A person commits this offense by intentionally and unreasonably obstructing emergency medical services, technicians, personnel, systems, or units identified in Public Health Law § 3001 while they perform their duties. ★ 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.