Evading arrest by concealment of identity · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 205.35 Evading arrest by concealment of identity.
A person is guilty of evading arrest by concealment of identity when, in the course of the commission of a felony or class A misdemeanor or in the immediate flight therefrom, such person wears a mask or facial covering or otherwise obscures their face, completely or partially, for no legitimate purpose with the intent to prevent their identification, apprehension, or arrest for such crime.
Evading arrest by concealment of identity is a class B misdemeanor.
During a felony or class A misdemeanor, or immediate flight from it, a person commits this offense by wearing a mask or facial covering, or otherwise partly or fully hiding the face, for no legitimate purpose and with intent to prevent identification, apprehension, or arrest for that crime. ★ It is a class B 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.