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Senate Bill S79

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Establishes a person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree when he or she steals automotive fuel with a value of thirty dollars or more

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2009-S79 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง155.30, Pen L

2009-S79 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree when he or she steals automotive fuel with a value of thirty dollars or more, whenever such property is dispensed into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle and is taken without payment therefor.

2009-S79 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S79 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   79

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  VOLKER -- 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 establishing a  person  is
  guilty  of  grand  larceny  in the fourth degree when he or she steals
  certain automotive fuel

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

  Section  1.  Subdivisions  9, 10 and 11 of section 155.30 of the penal
law, subdivision 9 as added by chapter 450 of the laws of 1990, subdivi-
sion 10 as added by chapter 491 of the laws of 1992 and  subdivision  11
as  added  by  chapter  394  of  the laws of 2005, are amended and a new
subdivision 12 is added to read as follows:
  9. The property consists of a scroll, religious  vestment,  vessel  or
other  item  of  property having a value of at least one hundred dollars
kept for or used in connection with religious worship in any building or
structure used as a place of religious worship  by  a  religious  corpo-
ration,  as  incorporated  under  the  religious corporations law or the
education law[.]; OR
  10. The property consists of an access device which the person intends
to use unlawfully to obtain telephone service[.]; OR
  11. The property consists of anhydrous ammonia  or  liquified  ammonia
gas  and  the  actor  intends to use, or knows another person intends to
use, such anhydrous ammonia or  liquified  ammonia  gas  to  manufacture
methamphetamine[.]; OR
  12.  THE PROPERTY CONSISTS OF AUTOMOTIVE FUEL, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED
IN SUBDIVISION FIFTEEN OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO OF THE TAX LAW,
WITH A VALUE OF THIRTY  DOLLARS  OR  MORE,  WHENEVER  SUCH  PROPERTY  IS
DISPENSED  INTO  THE  FUEL  TANK OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND IS TAKEN WITHOUT
PAYMENT THEREFOR.
  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

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