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Assembly Bill A1560

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of display of sexual material in a vehicle

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2011-A1560 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S692
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง245.12, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7618, S6187
2013-2014: A5193
2015-2016: A8426
2017-2018: A3558
2019-2020: A2708

2011-A1560 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of display of sexual material in a vehicle while on display in a public place.

2011-A1560 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1560

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 10, 2011
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime  of  display  of
  sexual material in a vehicle

  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 245.12  to
read as follows:
S 245.12 DISPLAY OF SEXUAL MATERIAL IN A VEHICLE.
  1.  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF DISPLAY OF SEXUAL MATERIAL IN A VEHICLE WHEN
HE OR SHE IS IN A VEHICLE THAT IS LOCATED IN A PUBLIC PLACE AND A  SEXU-
ALLY  EXPLICIT  VIDEO IS BEING DISPLAYED ON A VIDEO OR TELEVISION SCREEN
LOCATED WITHIN THAT VEHICLE THAT IS CAPABLE OF BEING SEEN  BY  A  PERSON
WHO IS NOT LOCATED WITHIN THE VEHICLE.
  2.  THE  CRIME  OF  DISPLAY  OF  SEXUAL MATERIAL IN A VEHICLE SHALL BE
PUNISHABLE BY UP TO TWO THOUSAND HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE.
  3. ANY PERSON CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF DISPLAY OF SEXUAL MATERIAL  IN
A  VEHICLE  SHALL,  IN  ADDITION TO ANY COMMUNITY SERVICE REQUIRED TO BE
PERFORMED, HAVE ONE POINT ADDED TO HIS OR HER DRIVING RECORD.
  DISPLAY OF SEXUAL MATERIAL IN A VEHICLE IS A VIOLATION.
  S 2. The commissioner of motor vehicles is authorized and directed  to
implement  and/or  amend any rule or regulation necessary for the timely
implementation of this act on its effective date.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04021-01-1

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