Assembly Bill A3502

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of tampering with electronic monitoring equipment

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A3502 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9358
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §145.80, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3357
2013-2014: A4068

2009-A3502 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of tampering with electronic monitoring equipment; such crime is a class A misdemeanor.

2009-A3502 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3502

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRADLEY, PAULIN, FIELDS, BENEDETTO, KOON, GALEF,
  BENJAMIN, ALFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARRA,  PHEFFER  --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law, in relation to creating the crime of
  tampering with electronic monitoring equipment

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 145.80 to
read as follows:
S 145.80 TAMPERING WITH ELECTRONIC MONITORING EQUIPMENT.
  1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION,  "ELECTRONIC  MONITORING  EQUIPMENT"
MEANS  AN  INSTRUMENT  OR DEVICE UTILIZED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION
FOUR OF SECTION 65.10 OF THIS CHAPTER.
  2. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF TAMPERING WITH ELECTRONIC  MONITORING  EQUIP-
MENT WHEN, HAVING NO RIGHT TO DO SO NOR ANY REASONABLE GROUND TO BELIEVE
THAT  HE  OR SHE HAS SUCH RIGHT, HE OR SHE TAMPERS WITH ELECTRONIC MONI-
TORING EQUIPMENT, OR DAMAGES OR OTHERWISE ALTERS SUCH  ELECTRONIC  MONI-
TORING  EQUIPMENT  IN AN EFFORT TO INTERFERE WITH ANY SIGNAL, IMPULSE OR
DATA BEING TRANSMITTED BY SUCH ELECTRONIC MONITORING EQUIPMENT.
  TAMPERING WITH ELECTRONIC MONITORING EQUIPMENT IS A CLASS A  MISDEMEA-
NOR.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02904-01-9

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