N.Y. Penal Law § 255.20
Current through 2024 NY Law Chapters 1-49, 52, and 61-117
In any prosecution for unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, or adultery, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant acted under a reasonable belief that both he and the other person to the marriage or prospective marriage or to the sexual intercourse, as the case may be, were unmarried.
N.Y. Penal Law § 255.20