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Assembly Bill A2806A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires an individual to attest by signature that they are the true owner of the property being sold

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2013-A2806 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §44-a, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A3881

2013-A2806 - Summary

Requires an individual to attest by signature that they are the true owner of the property being sold.

2013-A2806 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2806

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 18, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Economic Development

AN  ACT to amend the general business law and the penal law, in relation
  to written false statements made by any person to  a  collateral  loan
  broker or second hand dealer regarding any loan made by such broker or
  sale to such dealer

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

  Section 1. Section 44 of the general business law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
  4. EACH PERSON SIGNING A MEMORANDUM OR NOTE  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION
ONE  OF  THIS SECTION, OR SIGNING A BILL OF SALE PROFFERED TOGETHER WITH
PERSONAL PROPERTY TO A SECOND HAND DEALER SHALL AFFIRM THAT  THE  STATE-
MENTS  THEREIN  ARE  TRUE UNDER THE PENALTIES OF THE OFFENSES OF LARCENY
AND/OR MAKING A PUNISHABLE FALSE WRITTEN STATEMENT.
  S 2. Section 210.45 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
S 210.45 Making a punishable false written statement.
  A person is guilty of making a punishable false written statement when
he OR SHE knowingly makes a false statement, which he OR  SHE  does  not
believe to be true, in a written instrument:
  1.  bearing  a legally authorized form notice to the effect that false
statements made therein are punishable; OR
  2. SUBMITTED TO OBTAIN  A  LOAN  FROM  A  COLLATERAL  LOAN  BROKER  OR
PROCEEDS OF SALE FROM A SECOND HAND DEALER, BEARING A LEGALLY AUTHORIZED
FORM NOTICE TO THE EFFECT THAT FALSE STATEMENTS MADE THEREIN ARE PUNISH-
ABLE.
  Making a punishable false written statement is a class A misdemeanor.
  S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00552-01-3

2013-A2806A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §44-a, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A3881

2013-A2806A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an individual to attest by signature that they are the true owner of the property being sold.

2013-A2806A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 2806--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 18, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Economic  Development  -- recommitted to the Committee on Economic
  Development in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend the general business law, in relation to attesting by
  signature that an individual is the true owner of the property

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

  Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
44-a to read as follows:
  S  44-A. ATTESTATION. AN INDIVIDUAL PLEDGING AN ITEM OF PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY TO A COLLATERAL LOAN BROKER SHALL ATTEST BY SIGNATURE, UNDER PENAL-
TY OF PERJURY, THAT HE OR SHE IS THE TRUE OWNER OF THE PERSONAL  PROPER-
TY.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00552-02-4

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