Criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 240.71 Criminal interference with health care services or religious
worship in the first degree.
A person is guilty of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the first degree when he or she commits the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the second degree and has been previously convicted of the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the first or second degree or aggravated interference with health care services in the first or second degree.
Criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the first degree is a class E felony.
Committing second-degree criminal interference with health-care services or religious worship after a prior conviction for first- or second-degree interference or first- or second-degree aggravated health-care interference is first-degree interference, 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.