§ 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  a  federal  law  enforcement
officer  as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law, or
wears or  displays  without  authority,  any  uniform,  badge  or  other
insignia  or  facsimile thereof, by which such police officer or federal
law enforcement officer is lawfully distinguished or expresses by his or
her words or actions that he or she  is  acting  with  the  approval  or
authority   of  any  police  department  or  acting  as  a  federal  law
enforcement officer with the approval of any agency that employs federal
law enforcement officers as enumerated in section 2.15 of  the  criminal
procedure law; 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.