NYSentencing

§ 190.25 Criminal impersonation in the second degree.
  A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the second degree when
he:
  1. Impersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with
intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another; or
  2.  Pretends to be a representative of some person or organization and
does an act in such pretended capacity with intent to obtain  a  benefit
or to injure or defraud another; or
  3.  (a)  Pretends to be a public servant, or wears or displays without
authority any uniform, badge, insignia or  facsimile  thereof  by  which
such  public  servant is lawfully distinguished, or falsely expresses by
his words or actions that he is a  public  servant  or  is  acting  with
approval  or authority of a public agency or department; and (b) so acts
with intent to induce another  to  submit  to  such  pretended  official
authority,  to  solicit  funds  or  to otherwise cause another to act in
reliance upon that pretense; or
  4. Impersonates  another  by  communication  by  internet  website  or
electronic  means  with  intent to obtain a benefit or injure or defraud
another, or by such communication pretends to be  a  public  servant  in
order  to  induce another to submit to such authority or act in reliance
on such pretense; or
  5.  Impersonates  another  person,   without   such   other   person's
permission, by using the other person's electronic signature with intent
to  obtain  a  benefit  or injure or defraud the other person or another
person. For the purposes of this subdivision, electronic signature shall
have the same meaning as set forth in subdivision three of section three
hundred two of the state technology law.
  Criminal impersonation in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
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