Unlawful surveillance in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 250.50 Unlawful surveillance in the first degree.
A person is guilty of unlawful surveillance in the first degree when he or she commits the crime of unlawful surveillance in the second degree and has been previously convicted within the past ten years of unlawful surveillance in the first or second degree.
Unlawful surveillance in the first degree is a class D felony.
Committing second-degree unlawful surveillance after a first- or second-degree unlawful-surveillance conviction within the past 10 years is first-degree unlawful surveillance, a class D 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.