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Senate Bill S4822

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for increase in penalty for threat with what appears to be a bomb

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2009-S4822 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3675
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง160.10, Pen L

2009-S4822 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for increase in penalty for threat with what appears to be a bomb in relation to robbery in the second degree.

2009-S4822 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S4822 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4822

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. AUBERTINE -- 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 increasing penalties for
  robbery using a device that appears to be a bomb

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

  Section  1. Section 160.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 374
of the laws of 1973, paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  2  as  amended  and
subdivision 3 as added by chapter 308 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
read as follows:
S 160.10 Robbery in the second degree.
  A  person  is  guilty of robbery in the second degree when he forcibly
steals property and when:
  1. He is aided by another person actually present; or
  2. In the course of the commission of the crime or of immediate flight
therefrom, he or another participant in the crime:
  (a) Causes physical injury to any person who is not a  participant  in
the crime; or
  (b)  Displays  what  appears to be a pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun,
machine gun, A BOMB or other firearm; or
  3. The property consists of a motor vehicle, as defined in section one
hundred twenty-five of the vehicle and traffic law.
  Robbery in the second degree is a class C 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.
                                                           LBD02460-01-9

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