S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9056
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 23, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the penal law, in
relation to the criminal use of a dangerous instrument on school
grounds during the commission of a felony
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 5 of section 220.10 of the
criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (v) to
read as follows:
(V) WHERE THE INDICTMENT CHARGES THE CLASS D FELONY OFFENSE OF ASSAULT
IN THE SECOND DEGREE, PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION 120.05 OF
THE PENAL LAW, ANY PLEA TO SUCH INDICTMENT SHALL INCLUDE A PLEA OF GUIL-
TY TO SUCH CHARGE NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW.
S 2. Subdivision 13 of section 10.00 of the penal law, as amended by
chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
13. "Dangerous instrument" means any instrument, article or substance,
including a "vehicle" as that term is defined in this section, OR AN
UMBRELLA CUSTOMARILY USED TO SHIELD AN INDIVIDUAL FROM CLIMATIC CONDI-
TIONS, which, under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to
be used or threatened to be used, is readily capable of causing death or
other serious physical injury.
S 3. 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.
LBD14442-01-9