§ 190.26 Criminal impersonation in the first degree.
A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the first
degree when he:
1. Pretends to be a police officer, or wears or displays
without authority, any uniform, badge or other insignia or
facsimile thereof, by which such police officer is lawfully
distinguished or expresses by his words or actions that he is
acting with the approval or authority of any police department;
and
2. So acts with intent to induce another to submit to such
pretended official authority or otherwise to act in reliance upon
said pretense and in the course of such pretense commits or
attempts to commit a felony; or
3. Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person author-
ized to issue a prescription for any drug or any instrument or device
used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral prescription which
is required to be reduced to writing pursuant to section thirty-three
hundred thirty-two of the public health law.
Criminal impersonation in the first degree is a class E
felony.
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