Interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 242.05 Interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal.
A person is guilty of interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal when he or she commits an act with intent to and which does make it impractical, dangerous or impossible for a service animal to perform its assigned responsibilities of assisting a person with a disability.
Interference, harassment or intimidation of a service animal is a class B misdemeanor.
Intentionally acting in a way that actually makes it impractical, dangerous, or impossible for a service animal to perform its assigned work assisting a person with a disability is interference, harassment, or intimidation of a service animal, 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.