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Assembly Bill A4582

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Broadens the crime of grand larceny in the third degree to punish an actor who commits such crime against a person who is sixty-five years of age or older

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2009-A4582 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง155.35, Pen L

2009-A4582 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Broadens the crime of grand larceny in the third degree to punish an actor who commits such crime against a person who is sixty-five years of age or older when such actor is more than ten years younger than such person.

2009-A4582 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4582

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 5, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, BENEDETTO, COLTON, GREENE, LANCMAN, PHEF-
  FER,  PEOPLES,  SWEENEY,  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to grand larceny in the third
  degree

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

  Section  1. Section 155.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 515
of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
S 155.35 Grand larceny in the third degree.
  A person is guilty of grand larceny in the third degree when he OR SHE
steals property and when:
  1. the value of the property exceeds three thousand dollars; OR
  2. THE PROPERTY, REGARDLESS OF ITS NATURE AND VALUE, IS TAKEN FROM THE
PERSON OF ANOTHER WHO IS SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AND THE  ACTOR
IS MORE THAN TEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN SUCH PERSON.
  Grand larceny in the third degree is a class D felony.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08091-01-9

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