Aggravated interference with health care services in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 240.73 Aggravated interference with health care services in the first
degree.
A person is guilty of the crime of aggravated interference with health care services in the first 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 serious physical injury to such other person who was obtaining or providing, or who was assisting another person to obtain or provide reproductive health services.
Aggravated interference with health care services in the first degree is a class C felony.
Committing § 240.70(1)(a) interference and thereby causing serious physical injury to a person obtaining, providing, or helping another obtain or provide reproductive health services is first-degree aggravated interference with health-care services, a class C 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.