New York Laws
Part 3 - Other Taxes
1811 - Estate, Gift and Transfer Taxes.

ยง 1811. Estate, gift and transfer taxes. Wrongful entry into safe
deposit box.--Any person who enters a safe deposit box of a decedent, or
a box standing in the joint names of such a decedent and one or more
persons, with knowledge of the death of the lessee of such box, which
entry results in an evasion of the tax imposed by article twenty-six of
this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.