Aggravated interference with health care services in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 240.72 Aggravated interference with health care services in the second
degree.
A person is guilty of the crime of aggravated interference with health care services in the second degree when he or she commits the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in violation of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section 240.70 of this article and thereby causes physical injury to such other person who was obtaining or providing, or was assisting another person to obtain or provide reproductive health services.
Aggravated interference with health care services in the second degree is a class E felony.
Committing § 240.70(1)(a) interference and thereby causing physical injury to a person obtaining, providing, or helping another obtain or provide reproductive health services is second-degree aggravated interference with health-care services, 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.