Facilitating female genital mutilation · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 260.22 Facilitating female genital mutilation.
A person is guilty of facilitating female genital mutilation when, knowing that a person intends to engage in the circumcising, excising or infibulating of the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of a person under eighteen years of age, and except as provided in subdivision two of section 130.85 of this chapter, he or she intentionally aids the commission or attempted commission of such conduct.
Facilitating female genital mutilation is a class A misdemeanor.
Except as provided in § 130.85(2), a person commits this offense by intentionally aiding the commission or attempted commission of circumcising, excising, or infibulating any part of the labia or clitoris of a person under 18, knowing someone intends that conduct. It is a class A 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.