Assembly Bill A1625

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides certain criminal penalties for the desecration of a military monument

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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-A1625 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §145.24, amd §§60.29 & 65.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9398
2013-2014: A1520
2015-2016: A1725
2017-2018: A2768
2019-2020: A1891

2009-A1625 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides certain criminal penalties for the desecration of a military monument; makes the desecration of a military monument a class A misdemeanor; defines military monument.

2009-A1625 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1625

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to providing certain criminal
  penalties for damage to military monuments

  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 145.24 to
read as follows:
S 145.24 DESECRATION OF A MILITARY MONUMENT.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF DESECRATION OF A  MILITARY  MONUMENT  WHEN  WITH
INTENT  TO DAMAGE PROPERTY, AND HAVING NO RIGHT TO DO SO NOR ANY REASON-
ABLE GROUND TO BELIEVE THAT HE OR SHE HAS SUCH RIGHT, HE OR SHE  DAMAGES
ANY  REAL  OR  PERSONAL  PROPERTY  MAINTAINED  AS A MILITARY MONUMENT. A
"MILITARY MONUMENT", FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, IS  ANY  MONUMENT
THAT  WAS ERECTED WITH THE INTENT TO HONOR A CURRENT OR FORMER MEMBER OR
MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES OR TO MARK OR COMMEMORATE  A  PAST  MILITARY
ACTION OR BATTLE.
  DESECRATION OF A MILITARY MONUMENT IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
  S  2.  Section  60.29 of the penal law, as added by chapter 165 of the
laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
S 60.29 Authorized disposition;  cemetery  OR  MILITARY  MONUMENT  dese-
          cration.
  When  a  person  is  convicted of an offense defined in section 145.22
[or], 145.23 OR 145.24 of this chapter or of an attempt to  commit  such
an  offense,  and  the sentence imposed by the court for such conviction
includes a sentence of probation or conditional discharge, such sentence
shall, where appropriate, be in accordance with paragraph (h) of  subdi-
vision  two  of  section  65.10  of this [article] TITLE as such section
relates to cemetery OR MILITARY MONUMENT crime.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02465-01-9
              

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