Sec. 130.05  Sex offenses; lack of consent.
  1.   Whether  or  not  specifically  stated, it is an element of every
offense defined in  this  article,  except  the  offense  of  consensual
sodomy, that the sexual act was committed without consent of the victim.

  2. Lack of consent results from:
  (a) Forcible compulsion; or
  (b) Incapacity to consent; or
  (c)  Where  the offense charged is sexual abuse, any circumstances, in
addition to forcible compulsion or incapacity to consent, in  which  the
victim  does  not  expressly  or  impliedly  acquiesce  in  the  actor's
conduct[.]; or
  (d) Where the offense charged is rape in the third degree  as  defined
in subdivision three of section 130.25, or sodomy in the third degree as
defined  in subdivision three of section 130.40, in addition to forcible
compulsion, circumstances under which, at the time of the act of  inter-
course  or deviate sexual intercourse, the victim clearly expressed that
he or she did not consent to engage in such act, and a reasonable person
in the actor's situation would have understood such person's  words  and
acts  as  an  expression  of  lack  of consent to such act under all the
circumstances.
Effective 2/1/01.

3.  A person is deemed incapable of consent when he or she is:
(a) less than seventeen years old; or
(b) mentally disabled; or
(c) mentally incapacitated; or
(d) physically helpless; or
(e)  committed  to  the  care  and  custody  of  the state department of
correctional services  or  a  hospital,  as  such  term  is  defined  in
subdivision  two  of section four hundred of the correction law, and the
actor is  an  employee,  not  married  to  such  person,  who  knows  or
reasonably  should  know  that  such person is committed to the care and
custody of such department or hospital. For purposes of this  paragraph,
"employee" means (i) an employee of the state department of correctional
services who  performs  professional  duties  in  a  state  correctional
facility  consisting  of  providing  custody,  medical  or mental health
services,  counseling  services,  educational  programs,  or  vocational
training for inmates;
(ii)  an  employee  of  the division of parole who performs professional
duties in a state correctional facility and who  provides  institutional
parole  services  pursuant  to  section  two hundred fifty-nine-e of the
executive law; or
(iii)   an  employee  of  the  office  of  mental  health  who  performs
professional duties in a state correctional  facility  or  hospital,  as
such  term  is defined in subdivision two of section four hundred of the
correction law, consisting of providing custody, or  medical  or  mental
health services for such inmates; or
(f)  committed to the care and custody of a local correctional facility,
as such term is defined in subdivision  two  of  section  forty  of  the
correction  law,  and  the  actor  is  an  employee, not married to such
person, who  knows  or  reasonably  should  know  that  such  person  is
committed to the care and custody of such facility. For purposes of this
paragraph, "employee"  means  an  employee  of  the  local  correctional
facility  where the person is committed who performs professional duties
consisting of providing custody,  medical  or  mental  health  services,
counseling  services,  educational  services, or vocational training for
inmates; or
  (g)  committed  to  or  placed  with the office of children and family
services and in residential care, and the  actor  is  an  employee,  not
married  to  such  person, who knows or reasonably should know that such
person is committed to or placed with such office of children and family
services and in  residential  care.  For  purposes  of  this  paragraph,
"employee"  means  an  employee  of  the  office  of children and family
services or of a residential facility who performs duties consisting  of
providing   custody,  medical  or  mental  health  services,  counseling
services, educational  services,  or  vocational  training  for  persons
committed  to  or placed with the office of children and family services
and in residential care; or
  (h) a client or patient and the actor is a  health  care  provider  or
mental  health  care  provider  charged with rape in the third degree as
defined in section 130.25, sodomy in the  third  degree  as  defined  in
section  130.40, aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree as defined
in section 130.65-a, or sexual abuse in the third degree as  defined  in
section  130.55, and the act of sexual conduct occurs during a treatment
session, consultation, interview, or examination.


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