N.Y. JUD Law § 486
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Practice of law by attorney who has been disbarred, suspended, or convicted of a felony
Official statutory text
§ 486. Practice of law by attorney who has been disbarred, suspended,\nor convicted of a felony. Any person whose admission to practice as an\nattorney and counselor-at-law has been revoked or who has been removed\nfrom office as attorney and counselor-at-law or, being an attorney and\ncounselor-at-law, has been convicted of a felony or has been suspended\nfrom practice and has not been duly and regularly reinstated, who does\nany act forbidden by the provisions of this article to be done by any\nperson not regularly admitted to practice law in the courts of record of\nthis state, unless the judgment, decree or order suspending him shall\npermit such act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor unless otherwise\nprovided by section four hundred eighty-five-a of this article.\n
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