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Senate Bill S2676

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of fraudulent accosting of a person seventy-five years of age or older

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2009-S2676 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง165.31, Pen L

2009-S2676 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of fraudulent accosting of a person seventy-five years of age or older; makes it a class E felony to fraudulently accost a person aged seventy-five years or older.

2009-S2676 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2676 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2676

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 26, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MORAHAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to fraudulent accosting of  a
  person seventy-five years of age or older

  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 165.31  to
read as follows:
S 165.31 FRAUDULENT  ACCOSTING  OF A PERSON SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR
           OLDER.
  1. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF FRAUDULENT ACCOSTING OF A PERSON SEVENTY-FIVE
YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER WHEN HE OR SHE ACCOSTS A PERSON AGED  SEVENTY-FIVE
YEARS  OR  OLDER  IN A PUBLIC PLACE WITH INTENT TO DEFRAUD HIM OR HER OF
MONEY OR OTHER PROPERTY BY MEANS OF A TRICK, SWINDLE OR CONFIDENCE GAME.
  2. A PERSON WHO, EITHER AT THE TIME HE OR SHE ACCOSTS  A  PERSON  AGED
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OR OLDER IN A PUBLIC PLACE OR AT SOME SUBSEQUENT TIME
OR  AT  SOME  OTHER  PLACE, MAKES STATEMENTS TO HIM OR HER OR ENGAGES IN
CONDUCT WITH RESPECT TO HIM OR HER OF A KIND COMMONLY MADE OR  PERFORMED
IN  THE  PERPETRATION OF A KNOWN TYPE OF CONFIDENCE GAME, IS PRESUMED TO
INTEND TO DEFRAUD SUCH PERSON OF MONEY OR OTHER PROPERTY.
  FRAUDULENT ACCOSTING OF A PERSON SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER IS
A CLASS E FELONY.
  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.
                                                           LBD08571-01-9

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