NYSentencing

§ 145.15  Criminal tampering in the second degree.
  A  person  is  guilty  of  criminal  tampering in the second degree when,
having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that  he  has
such  right,  he  tampers  or  makes  connection  with  property  of a gas,
electric, sewer, steam or water-works corporation, telephone  or  telegraph
corporation,  common  carrier, or public utility operated by a municipality
or district; except that in any prosecution under this section,  it  is  an
affirmative defense that the defendant did not engage in such conduct for a
larcenous or otherwise unlawful or wrongful purpose.
  Criminal tampering in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
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