Impairing the integrity of a government licensing examination · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 200.55 Impairing the integrity of a government licensing examination.
A person is guilty of impairing the integrity of a government licensing examination when, with intent to obtain a benefit for himself or herself, or for another person, he or she:
1. Wrongfully alters or changes an applicant's grade on a government licensing examination; or
2. Causes any false or inaccurate grade to be entered into a government licensing registry; or
3. Provides answers, with an intent to wrongfully benefit another, to current questions on a pending government licensing examination; or
4. Wrongfully provides a copy of a current test used to determine competence in a licensed profession, trade, craft or other vocation.
Impairing the integrity of a government licensing examination is a class D felony.
With intent to benefit oneself or another, a person impairs a government licensing examination by:
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.