Assembly Bill A6951

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Raises the monetary value of damaged property that is considered criminal mischief or securities fraud

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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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2019-A6951 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2560
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§145.05 & 145.10, Pen L; amd §352-c, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8195, S4688
2011-2012: A1716, S970
2013-2014: A4482, S3356
2015-2016: A2960, S2191
2017-2018: A3595, S4026
2021-2022: S3355
2023-2024: S1237

2019-A6951 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Raises the monetary value of damaged property that is considered criminal mischief or securities fraud.

2019-A6951 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6951
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in relation
   to criminal mischief and securities fraud
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  145.05  of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 276 of the laws  of  2003,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  damages  property  of  another  person in an amount exceeding [two
 hundred fifty] ONE THOUSAND dollars.
   § 2. Section 145.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 961 of the
 laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
 § 145.10 Criminal mischief in the second degree.
   A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the second degree when with
 intent to damage property of another person, and having no right  to  do
 so  nor  any  reasonable  ground  to  believe that he has such right, he
 damages property of another person in an amount  exceeding  [one]  THREE
 thousand [five hundred] dollars.
   Criminal mischief in the second degree is a class D felony.
   §  3.  Subdivision  6 of section 352-c of the general business law, as
 added by chapter 146 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
   6. Any person, partnership, corporation,  company,  trust  or  associ-
 ation,  or  any  agent  or employee thereof who intentionally engages in
 fraud, deception, concealment, suppression, false pretense or fictitious
 or pretended purchase or sale, or who makes any material false represen-
 tation or statement with intent to deceive or defraud, while engaged  in
 inducing  or promoting the issuance, distribution, exchange, sale, nego-
 tiation or purchase within or from  this  state  of  any  securities  or
 commodities,  as defined in this article, and thereby wrongfully obtains
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05481-01-9

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