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Assembly Bill A6246

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Raises to less than 18 years, the age of minority for the dissemination of indecent materials

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2009-A6246 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง235.20 & 235.23, Pen L

2009-A6246 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Raises from under 17 to under 18 years of age, the age of minority with respect to crimes involving the dissemination of indecent materials to minors.

2009-A6246 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6246

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 26, 2009
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the age of  minority  with
  respect to the dissemination of indecent materials to minors

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 235.20 of the penal law, as  added
by chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  "Minor" means any person less than [seventeen] EIGHTEEN years old.
  S  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 235.23 of the penal law, as amended by
chapter 600 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
  2. In any prosecution for disseminating indecent material to minors in
the second degree pursuant to subdivision one or two of  section  235.21
of this article, it is an affirmative defense that:
  (a)  The  defendant  had  reasonable  cause  to believe that the minor
involved was [seventeen] EIGHTEEN years old or more; and
  (b)  Such minor exhibited to the  defendant  a  draft  card,  driver's
license,  birth  certificate  or  other  official or apparently official
document purporting to establish that such minor was  [seventeen]  EIGH-
TEEN years old or more.
  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.
                                                           LBD08017-01-9

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