(a) cause physical injury, serious physical injury, or death to a
person; or
(b) cause damage to property, other than the property of the actor; or
(c) engage in other conduct constituting a felony or unlawful
imprisonment in the second degree in violation of section 135.05 of this
article; or
(d) accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or
deportation proceedings to be instituted against such person; provided,
however, that it shall be an affirmative defense to this subdivision
that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true
and that his or her sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to
take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of
such threatened charge; or
(e) expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or
false, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt or ridicule;
or
(f) testify or provide information or withhold testimony or
information with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or
(g) use or abuse his or her position as a public servant by performing
some act within or related to his or her official duties, or by failing
or refusing to perform an official duty, in such manner as to affect
some person adversely.
Labor trafficking is a class D felony.
Structure New York Laws
Article 135 - Kidnapping, Coercion and Related Offenses
135.00 - Unlawful Imprisonment, Kidnapping and Custodial Interference; Definitions of Terms.
135.05 - Unlawful Imprisonment in the Second Degree.
135.10 - Unlawful Imprisonment in the First Degree.
135.15 - Unlawful Imprisonment; Defense.
135.20 - Kidnapping in the Second Degree.
135.25 - Kidnapping in the First Degree.
135.36 - Labor Trafficking; Accomplice.
135.37 - Aggravated Labor Trafficking.
135.45 - Custodial Interference in the Second Degree.
135.50 - Custodial Interference in the First Degree.
135.55 - Substitution of Children.
135.60 - Coercion in the Third Degree.
135.61 - Coercion in the Second Degree.
135.65 - Coercion in the First Degree.