Assembly Bill A10742

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Establishes criminal offenses for the theft and unlawful possession of a blank official New York state prescription form

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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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2011-A10742 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6743
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§155.30 & 165.45, add §220.67, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A3744, S2940
2015-2016: A4824, S3402
2017-2018: A6753, S2250

2011-A10742 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes within the class D felony of grand larceny in the fourth degree, the theft of a blank official New York state prescription form; includes within the class D felony of criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, the possession of a stolen blank official New York state prescription form; establishes the class A misdemeanor of criminal possession of a prescription form, for the unlawful possession of a blank official New York state prescription form.

2011-A10742 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  10742

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 18, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  the  theft  and  unlawful
  possession of a blank official New York state prescription form

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

  Section 1. Subdivisions 9, 10 and 11 of section 155.30  of  the  penal
law, subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2010, subdi-
vision 10 as added by chapter 491 of the laws of 1992 and subdivision 11
as  added  by  chapter  394  of  the laws of 2005, are amended and a new
subdivision 12 is added to read as follows:
  9. The property consists of a scroll, religious vestment, a vessel, an
item comprising a display of religious symbols which forms  a  represen-
tative  expression  of  faith,  or  other miscellaneous item of property
which:
  (a) has a value of at least one hundred dollars; and
  (b) is kept for or used in connection with religious  worship  in  any
building,  structure or upon the curtilage of such building or structure
used as a place of religious worship  by  a  religious  corporation,  as
incorporated  under  the  religious  corporations  law  or the education
law[.]; OR
  10. The property consists of an access device which the person intends
to use unlawfully to obtain telephone service[.]; OR
  11. The property consists of anhydrous ammonia  or  liquified  ammonia
gas  and  the  actor  intends to use, or knows another person intends to
use, such anhydrous ammonia or  liquified  ammonia  gas  to  manufacture
methamphetamine[.]; OR
  12.  THE  PROPERTY  CONSISTS  OF  A  BLANK  OFFICIAL  NEW  YORK  STATE
PRESCRIPTION FORM, AS SET FORTH IN  SECTION  TWENTY-ONE  OF  THE  PUBLIC
HEALTH LAW.
  S 2. Subdivisions 6 and 7 of section 165.45 of the penal law, subdivi-
sion  6 as added by chapter 450 of the laws of 1990 and subdivision 7 as
added by chapter 394 of the laws of 2005, are amended and a new subdivi-
sion 8 is added to read as follows:

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

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