(Table of contents from the 2023 edition. For informational purposes only)
PENAL LAW
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE SECTIONS
1 General Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 - 1.05
5 General Rules of Construction and Application . . . . . . 5.00 - 5.10
10 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00
15 Culpability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.00 - 15.25
20 Parties to Offenses and Liability Through
Accessorial Conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.00 - 20.25
25 Defenses in General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00
30 Defense of Infancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00
35 Defense of Justification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.00 - 35.30
40 Other Defenses Involving Lack of Culpability . . . . . 40.00 - 40.15
55 Classification and Designation of Offenses . . . . . . . 55.00 - 55.10
60 Authorized Dispositions of Offenders . . . . . . . . . . . 60.00 - 60.37
65 Sentences of Probation, Conditional Discharge
and Unconditional Discharge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.00 - 65.20
70 Sentences of Imprisonment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.00 - 70.85
80 Fines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.00 - 80.15
85 Sentence of Intermittent Imprisonment . . . . . . . . . . . 85.00 - 85.15
100 Criminal Solicitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 - 100.20
105 Conspiracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.00 - 105.35
110 Attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.00 - 110.10
115 Criminal Facilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.00 - 115.20
120 Assault and Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.00 - 120.70
121 Strangulation and Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . 121.11 - 121.14
125 Homicide and Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.00 - 125.27
130 Sex Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.00 - 130.96
135 Kidnapping, Coercion and Related Offenses . . . . 135.00 - 135.75
140 Burglary and Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.00 - 140.40
145 Criminal Mischief and Related Offenses . . . . . . . 145.00 - 145.70
150 Arson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00 - 150.20
155 Larceny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.00 - 155.45
156 Offenses Involving Computers; Definition
of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156.00 - 156.50
158 Welfare Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.00 - 158.50
160 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.00 - 160.15
165 Other Offenses Relating to Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165.00 - 165.74
170 Forgery and Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.00 - 170.75
175 Offenses Involving False Written Statements . . . 175.00 - 175.45
176 Insurance Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.00 - 176.80
177 Health Care Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.00 - 177.30
178 Criminal Diversion of Prescription Medications
and Prescriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.00 - 178.26
179 Criminal Diversion of Medical Marihuana . . . . . 179.00 - 179.15
II
ARTICLE SECTIONS
180 Bribery Not Involving Public Servants, and
Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.00 - 180.57
185 Frauds on Creditors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.00 - 185.15
187 Residential Mortgage Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187.00 - 187.25
190 Other Frauds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190.00 - 190.89
195 Official Misconduct and Obstruction of Public
Servants Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.00 - 195.20
200 Bribery Involving Public Servants and
Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 - 200.56
205 Escape and Other Offenses Relating to Custody . 205.00 - 205.65
210 Perjury and Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210.00 - 210.50
215 Other Offenses Relating to Judicial and Other
Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215.00 - 215.80
220 Controlled Substances Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220.00 - 220.78
222 Cannabis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.00 - 222.65
225 Gambling Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225.00 - 225.95
230 Prostitution Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.00 - 230.40
235 Obscenity and Related Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235.00 - 235.24
240 Offenses Against Public Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240.00 - 240.77
241 Harassment of Rent Regulated Tenants . . . . . . . . 241.00 - 241.05
242 Offenses Against Service Animals and Handlers . 242.00 - 242.15
245 Offenses Against Public Sensibilities . . . . . . . . . . 245.00 - 245.15
250 Offenses Against the Right to Privacy . . . . . . . . . 250.00 - 250.65
255 Offenses Affecting the Marital Relationship . . . . . 255.00 - 255.30
260 Offenses Relating to Children, Disabled
Persons and Vulnerable Elderly Persons . . . . . 260.00 - 260.35
263 Sexual Performance by a Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263.00 - 263.30
265 Firearms and Other Dangerous Weapons . . . . . . . 265.00 - 265.55
270 Other Offenses Relating to Public Safety . . . . . . . 270.00 - 270.35
275 Offenses Relating to Unauthorized Recording . . . 275.00 - 275.45
400 Licensing and Other Provisions
Relating to Firearms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400.00 - 400.20
405 Licensing and Other Provisions Relating
to Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405.00 - 405.18
410 Seizure and Forfeiture of Equipment Used in
Promoting Pornography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410.00
415 Seizure and Forfeiture of Vehicles, Vessels
and Aircraft Used to Transport or
Conceal Gambling Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415.00
420 Seizure and Destruction of Unauthorized Recordings
of Sound and Forfeiture of Equipment Used
in the Production Thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420.00 - 420.05
450 Disposal of Stolen Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450.10
460 Enterprise Corruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460.00 - 460.80
470 Money Laundering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470.00 - 470.25
480 Criminal Forfeiture - Felony Controlled
Substance Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480.00 - 480.35
485 Hate Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485.00 - 485.10
490 Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490.00 - 490.70
496 Corrupting the Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496.01 - 496.07
500 Laws Repealed; Time of Taking Effect . . . . . . . . . 500.05 - 500.10
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE SECTIONS
1 Short Title, Applicability and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 - 1.20
2 Peace Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10 - 2.30
10 The Criminal Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.10 - 10.40
20 Geographical Jurisdiction of Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . 20.10 - 20.60
30 Timeliness of Prosecutions and Speedy Trial . . . . . 30.10 - 30.30
40 Exemption from Prosecution by Reason of
Previous Prosecution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.10 - 40.51
50 Compulsion of Evidence by Offer of
Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.10 - 50.30
60 Rules of Evidence and Related Matters . . . . . . . 60.10 - 60.76
65 Use of Closed-circuit Television for Certain Child
Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.00 - 65.30
70 Standards of Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.10 - 70.20
95 Pre-Criminal Proceeding Settlements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.00
100 Commencement of Action in Local Criminal
Court or Youth Part of a Superior
Court–Accusatory Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.05 - 100.60
110 Requiring Defendant's Appearance in Local
Criminal Court or Youth Part of Superior Court
for Arraignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.10 - 110.20
120 Warrant of Arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.10 - 120.90
130 The Summons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.10 - 130.60
140 Arrest Without a Warrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.05 - 140.55
150 The Appearance Ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.10 - 150.80
160 Fingerprinting and Photographing of Defendant
After Arrest–Criminal Identification Records
and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.10 - 160.60
170 Proceedings Upon Information, Simplified Traffic
Information, Prosecutor's Information and
Misdemeanor Complaint from Arraignment
to Plea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.10 - 170.80
180 Proceedings upon Felony Complaint from
Arraignment Thereon Through Disposition
Thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.10 - 180.85
182 Alternate Method of Court Appearance . . . . . . . . 182.10 - 182.40
190 The Grand Jury and its Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . 190.05 - 190.90
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ARTICLE SECTIONS
195 Waiver of Indictment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.10 - 195.40
200 Indictment and Related Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . 200.10 - 200.95
210 Proceedings in Superior Court from Filing of
Indictment to Plea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210.05 - 210.50
215 Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal for
Purposes of Referring Selected Felonies to
Dispute Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215.10 - 215.40
216 Judicial Diversion Program for Certain
Felony Offenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216.00 - 216.05
220 The Plea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220.10 - 220.60
230 Removal of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.10 - 230.40
245 Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245.10 - 245.85
250 Pre-trial Notices of Defenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.10 - 250.40
255 Pre-trial Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255.10 - 255.20
260 Jury Trial–Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260.10 - 260.30
270 Jury Trial–Formation and Conduct of Jury . . . . . . 270.05 - 270.55
280 Jury Trial—Motion for a Mistrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280.10 - 280.20
290 Jury Trial–Trial Order of Dismissal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.10
300 Jury Trial–Court's Charge and Instructions to Jury 300.10 - 300.50
310 Jury Trial–Deliberation and Verdict of Jury . . . . 310.10 - 310.85
320 Waiver of Jury Trial and Conduct of
Non-Jury Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320.10 - 320.20
330 Proceedings from Verdict to Sentence . . . . . . . . . 330.10 - 330.50
340 Pre-Trail Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340.10 - 340.50
350 Non-Jury Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.10 - 350.20
360 Jury Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360.05 - 360.55
370 Proceedings from Verdict to Sentence . . . . . . . . . 370.10 - 370.25
380 Sentencing in General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380.10 - 380.97
390 Pre-sentence Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390.10 - 390.60
400 Pre-sentence Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400.10 - 400.40
410 Sentences of Probation, Conditional Discharge
and Parole Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410.10 - 410.91
420 Fines, Restitution and Reparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420.05 - 420.45
430 Sentences of Imprisonment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430.10 - 430.30
440 Post-Judgment Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440.10 - 440.70
450 Appeals-In What Cases Authorized and to What
Courts Taken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450.10 - 450.90
460 Appeals-Taking and Perfection Thereof and Stays
During Pendency Thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460.10 - 460.90
III
ARTICLE SECTIONS
470 Appeals–Determination Thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470.05 - 470.60
500 Recognizance, Bail and Commitment–Definitions
of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.10
510 Recognizance, Bail and Commitment-Determination
of Application for Recognizance or Bail, Issuance
of Securing Orders, and Related Matters . . . . . 510.10 - 510.50
520 Bail and Bail Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520.10 - 520.40
530 Orders of Recognizance or Bail with Respect to
Defendants in Criminal Actions and Proceedings-
When and by What Courts Authorized . . . . . . . 530.10 - 530.80
540 Forfeiture of Bail and Remission Thereof . . . . . . 540.10 - 540.30
550 Securing Attendance of Defendants-in General . . . . . . . . . 550.10
560 Securing Attendance of Defendants Confined in
Institutions Within the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560.10
570 Securing Attendance of Defendants Who Are Outside
the State but Within the United States-Rendition
to Other Jurisdictions of Defendants Within the
State-Uniform Criminal Extradition Act . . . . . . 570.02 - 570.66
580 Securing Attendance of Defendants Confined as
Prisoners in Institutions of Other Jurisdictions of
the United States-Rendition to Other Jurisdictions
of Persons Confined as Prisoners in this
State-Agreement on Detainers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580.10 - 580.30
590 Securing Attendance of Defendants Who Are
Outside the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590.10
600 Securing Attendance of Corporate Defendants
and Related Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600.10 - 600.20
610 Securing Attendance of Witnesses by Subpoena . 610.10 - 610.50
620 Securing Attendance of Witnesses by Material
Witness Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620.10 - 620.80
630 Securing Attendance as Witnesses of Persons
Confined in Institutions Within the State . . . . . 630.10 - 630.20
640 Securing Attendance as Witnesses of Persons at
Liberty Outside the State-Rendition to Other
Jurisdictions of Witnesses at Liberty Within the
State-Uniform Act to Secure Attendance of
Witnesses From Without the State in Criminal Cases . . . 640.10
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ARTICLE SECTIONS
650 Securing Attendance as Witnesses of Prisoners
Confined in Institutions of Other Jurisdictions
of the United States-Rendition to Other
Jurisdictions of Prisoners Confined
In Institutions Within the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650.10 - 650.30
660 Securing Testimony for Use in a Subsequent
Proceeding–Examination of Witnesses
Conditionally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660.10 - 660.60
670 Use in a Criminal Proceeding of Testimony Given
in a Previous Proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670.10 - 670.20
680 Securing Testimony Outside the State for Use in
Proceeding Within the State-Examination of
Witnesses on Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680.10 - 680.80
690 Search Warrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690.05 - 690.55
700 Eavesdropping and Video Surveillance Warrants . 700.05 - 700.70
705 Pen Registers and Trap and Trace Devices . . . . . 705.00 - 705.35
710 Motion to Suppress Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710.10 - 710.70
715 Destruction of Dangerous Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715.05 - 715.50
720 Youthful Offender Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720.10 - 720.35
722 Proceedings Against Juvenile Offenders and
Adolescent Offenders; Establishment of Youth
Part and Related Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722.00 - 722.24
725 Removal of Proceeding Against Juvenile Offender
to Family Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725.00 - 725.20
730 Mental Disease or Defect Excluding
Fitness to Proceed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730.10 - 730.70