Senate Bill S8289

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates crimes of cemetery desecration of a veteran

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S8289 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2205
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§145.22, 145.23, 60.29 & 65.10, add §§145.28 & 145.29, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3042
2013-2014: A2906
2015-2016: A3518
2017-2018: A2300

2009-S8289 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates crimes of cemetery desecration of a veteran as a class E felony; makes corresponding changes in cemetery desecration crimes in the first and second degrees; makes additional penal provisions.

2009-S8289 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S8289 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  8289

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 21, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. STACHOWSKI, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to cemetery  desecration  and
  cemetery desecration of a veteran

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

  Section 1. Section 145.22 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  353
of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
S 145.22 Cemetery desecration in the second degree.
  A  person is guilty of cemetery desecration in the second degree when:
(a) with intent to damage property of another person[,]  and  having  no
right  to  do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he OR SHE has
such right, he OR SHE damages any real  or  personal  property  USED  OR
maintained  as  a  cemetery,  MAUSOLEUM,  COLUMBARIUM, LOT, plot, grave,
burial place, NICHE, CRYPT, VAULT, or other place of interment OR TEMPO-
RARY STORAGE of human remains OR CREMATED HUMAN REMAINS,  OR  ANY  MONU-
MENT,  HEADSTONE,  MARKER,  MEMORIAL,  PLAQUE,  STATUE, VASE, URN, DECO-
RATION, FLAG HOLDER,  BADGE,  SHIELD,  ITEM  OF  MEMORABILIA,  OR  OTHER
EMBELLISHMENT THAT IS LOCATED ON OR ADJACENT TO, OR IS OTHERWISE ASSOCI-
ATED  WITH, ANY SUCH CEMETERY, MAUSOLEUM, COLUMBARIUM, LOT, PLOT, GRAVE,
BURIAL PLACE, NICHE, CRYPT, VAULT, OR OTHER PLACE OF INTERMENT OR TEMPO-
RARY STORAGE; or
  (b) with intent to steal personal property, he OR SHE steals  personal
property  which  is  located at a cemetery, MAUSOLEUM, COLUMBARIUM, LOT,
plot, grave, burial place, NICHE, CRYPT, VAULT, or other place of inter-
ment of human remains OR CREMATED HUMAN REMAINS, OR ANY MONUMENT,  HEAD-
STONE,  MARKER,  MEMORIAL,  PLAQUE,  STATUE, VASE, URN, DECORATION, FLAG
HOLDER, BADGE, SHIELD, ITEM OF MEMORABILIA, OR OTHER EMBELLISHMENT  THAT
IS  LOCATED ON OR ADJACENT TO, OR IS OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH, ANY SUCH
CEMETERY, MAUSOLEUM, COLUMBARIUM, LOT, PLOT, GRAVE, BURIAL PLACE, NICHE,
CRYPT, VAULT, OR OTHER PLACE OF INTERMENT OR TEMPORARY STORAGE and which
property is owned by the person or organization which maintains or  owns
such place or the estate, next-of-kin or representatives of the deceased
person interred there.

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

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