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Proof that it is a crime (was: Is it me, or is Steven at it again?)

Posted by Train Dude on Thu Jan 1 21:47:24 2009, in response to Re: Is it me, or is Steven at it again?, posted by AlM on Thu Jan 1 21:38:46 2009.

Who says impersonating a non-police MTA employee is a crime? No one has cited anything in the criminal code about that. It might be a crime, but I personally doubt it. I suspect it's only the thing you achieve through the impersonation (trespass, fraud, whatever) that's the crime.

I believe that this says so. If you look at NY State penal law Artical S190.25 Which says:
S 190.25 Criminal impersonation in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the second degree when
he:
1. Impersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with
intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another; or
2. Pretends to be a representative of some person or organization and
does an act in such pretended capacity with intent to obtain a benefit
or to injure or defraud another; or
3. (a) Pretends to be a public servant, or wears or displays without
authority any uniform, badge, insignia or facsimile thereof by which
such public servant is lawfully distinguished, or falsely expresses by
his words or actions that he is a public servant or is acting with
approval or authority of a public agency or department; and (b) so acts
with intent to induce another to submit to such pretended official
authority, to solicit funds or to otherwise cause another to act in
reliance upon that pretense.
Criminal impersonation in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.

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