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Assembly Bill A4489

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of sports rage in the presence of a minor

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2009-A4489 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง240.23, Pen L

2009-A4489 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of sports rage in the presence of a minor when a non-participant over the age of eighteen engages in violence at a professional, non-professional or youth sporting event while in the presence of one or more persons under the age of sixteen; makes sports rage in the presence of a minor a class B misdemeanor.

2009-A4489 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4489

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ESPAILLAT, EDDINGTON, FIELDS, COOK -- Multi-Spon-
  sored  by  -- M. of A.  CALHOUN, LATIMER, ORTIZ, SCARBOROUGH, TOWNS --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  creating  the  crime  of
  sports rage in the presence of a minor

  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 240.23  to
read as follows:
S 240.23 SPORTS RAGE IN THE PRESENCE OF A MINOR.
  A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF SPORTS RAGE IN THE PRESENCE OF A MINOR WHEN,
WITHOUT REGARD TO THE AFFECT IT  HAS  ON  A  PERSON  UNDER  THE  AGE  OF
SIXTEEN,  A PERSON OVER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN, WHO IS A NON-PARTICIPANT IN
THE SPORTING EVENT, RECKLESSLY ENDANGERS THE SAFETY  OF  SUCH  MINOR  BY
ENGAGING  IN  FIGHTING OR IN VIOLENT, TUMULTUOUS OR THREATENING BEHAVIOR
AT A PROFESSIONAL, NON-PROFESSIONAL OR YOUTH SPORTING EVENT WHILE IN THE
PRESENCE OF ONE OR MORE PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN.
  SPORTS RAGE IN THE PRESENCE OF A MINOR IS A CLASS B MISDEMEANOR.
  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.
                                                           LBD07541-01-9

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