§ 240.00 Offenses against public order; definitions of terms.\n The following definitions are applicable to this article:\n 1. "Public place" means a place to which the public or a substantial\ngroup of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to,\nhighways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement,\nparks, playgrounds, community centers, and hallways, lobbies and other\nportions of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or\napartments designed for actual residence.\n 2. "Transportation facility" means any conveyance, premises or place\nused for or in connection with public passenger transportation, whether\nby air, railroad, motor vehicle or any other method. It includes\naircraft, watercraft, railroad cars, buses, school buses as defined in\nsection one hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law, and air,\nboat, railroad and bus terminals and stations and all appurtenances\nthereto.\n 3. "School grounds" means in or on or within any building, structure,\nschool bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle\nand traffic law, athletic playing field, playground or land contained\nwithin the real property boundary line of a public or private\nelementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational or high\nschool.\n 4. "Hazardous substance" shall mean any physical, chemical,\nmicrobiological or radiological substance or matter which, because of\nits quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious\ncharacteristics, may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in\nmortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating\nreversible illness, or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to\nhuman health.\n 5. "Age" means sixty years old or more.\n 6. "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that\nsubstantially limits a major life activity.\n 7. "Gender identity or expression" means a person's actual or\nperceived gender-related identity, appearance, behavior, expression, or\nother gender-related characteristic regardless of the sex assigned to\nthat person at birth, including, but not limited to, the status of being\ntransgender.\n 8. "Place of religious worship" means any building or structure that a\nreasonable person would know that religious adherents collectively\nrecognize as a place to regularly gather for or hold religious services,\nobservance, prayer, assembly, education, instruction, or devotional\npractice, including community centers, and shall include its entrance,\nentryway, exit, parking lot, parking lot entrance, driveway, driveway\nentrance, or sidewalk that touches such places.\n
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