What is considered personal harassment
Full Question:
Personal harassment: what does it really mean? I have been going through this for about 2 years and our police department is doing nothing to put a stop to it.
12/09/2007 |
Category: Criminal ยป Harassment |
State: New York |
#13595
Answer:
The following are New York statutes:
§ 240.25 Penal. Harassment in the first degree.
A person is guilty of harassment in the first degree when he or she
intentionally and repeatedly harasses another person by following such
person in or about a public place or places or by engaging in a course of
conduct or by repeatedly committing acts which places such person in
reasonable fear of physical injury. This section shall not apply to
activities regulated by the national labor relations act, as amended, the
railway labor act, as amended, or the federal employment labor management
act, as amended.
Harassment in the first degree is a class B misdemeanor.
§ 240.26 Penal. Harassment in the second degree.
A person is guilty of harassment in the second degree when, with intent
to harass, annoy or alarm another person:
1. He or she strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects such other
person to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same; or
2. He or she follows a person in or about a public place or places; or
3. He or she engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts
which alarm or seriously annoy such other person and which serve no
legitimate purpose.
Subdivisions two and three of this section shall not apply to activities
regulated by the national labor relations act, as amended, the railway
labor act, as amended, or the federal employment labor management act, as
amended.
Harassment in the second degree is a violation.
