PL 215.50 Criminal contempt in the second degree Class A misdemeanor
§ 215.50 Criminal contempt in the second degree.
  A  person  is  guilty  of  criminal contempt in the second degree when he
engages in any of the following conduct:
  1.   Disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behavior, committed during the
sitting of a court, in its immediate view and presence and directly tending
to interrupt its proceedings or to impair the respect due to its authority;
or
  2.  Breach of the peace, noise, or other disturbance, directly tending to
interrupt a court's proceedings; or
  3.  Intentional disobedience or resistance to the lawful process or other
mandate of a court except in  cases  involving  or  growing  out  of  labor
disputes   as   defined   by  subdivision  two  of  section  seven  hundred
fifty-three-a of the judiciary law; or
  4.   Contumacious  and  unlawful  refusal to be sworn as a witness in any
court proceeding  or, after being sworn, to answer  any  legal  and  proper
interrogatory; or
  5.   Knowingly  publishing  a  false  or  grossly  inaccurate report of a
court's proceedings; or
  6.   Intentional  failure  to obey any mandate, process or notice, issued
pursuant to articles sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,  or  eighteen-a  of  the
judiciary  law,  or to rules adopted pursuant to any such statute or to any
special statute establishing commissioners of jurors and prescribing  their
duties or who refuses to be sworn as provided therein; or
  7.   On  or  along  a  public  street  or sidewalk within a radius of two
hundred feet of any building established as a courthouse, he  calls  aloud,
shouts,  holds  or displays placards or signs containing written or printed
matter, concerning the conduct of a trial being held in such courthouse  or
the  character of the court or jury engaged in such trial or calling for or
demanding any specified action or determination by such court  or  jury  in
connection with such trial.
  Criminal contempt in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.

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