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245.03 – Public lewdness in the first degree

§ 245.03 Public lewdness in the first degree.

A person is guilty of public lewdness in the first degree when:

1. being nineteen years of age or older and intending to be observed
by a person less than sixteen years of age in a place described in
subdivision (a) or (b) of section 245.00 of this article, he or she
intentionally exposes the private or intimate parts of his or her body
in a lewd manner for the purpose of alarming or seriously annoying such
person, and he or she is thereby observed by such person in such place;
or

2. he or she commits the crime of public lewdness, as defined in
section 245.00 of this article, and within the preceding year has been
convicted of an offense defined in such section 245.00 or this section.

Public lewdness in the first degree is a class A misdemeanor.

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