Assembly Bill A9860

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to falsely impersonating an attorney

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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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2013-A9860 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง485, 485-a, 486 & 495, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A2465
2017-2018: A3753, A10893
2019-2020: A6383
2021-2022: A4800

2013-A9860 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the penalty for falsely impersonating an attorney or acting as an attorney to a class E felony from a misdemeanor.

2013-A9860 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  9860

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 27, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. GRAF -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation  to  feloniously  falsely
  impersonating an attorney

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

  Section 1. Section 485 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 492
of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
  S 485. Violation of certain preceding sections a misdemeanor.  [Except
as  provided in section four hundred eighty-five-a of this article, any]
ANY person violating the provisions of section  [four  hundred  seventy-
eight,]  four  hundred  seventy-nine,  four hundred eighty, four hundred
eighty-one, four hundred eighty-two, OR four  hundred  eighty-three  [or
four hundred eighty-four] of this article[,] shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor.
  S  2.  Section 485-a of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 22 of
the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  S 485-a. Violation of certain sections a class E  felony.  Any  person
who violates the provisions of sections four hundred seventy-eight, four
hundred eighty-four, four hundred eighty-six or four hundred ninety-five
of  this  article  is  guilty  of a class E felony when he or she[: (1)]
falsely holds himself or herself out as a person  licensed  to  practice
law  in this state, a person otherwise permitted to practice law in this
state, or a person who can provide  services  that  only  attorneys  are
authorized to provide[; and (2) causes another person to suffer monetary
loss  or damages exceeding one thousand dollars or other material damage
resulting from impairment of a legal right to which he or she  is  enti-
tled].
  S  3.  Section  486 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 492 of
the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
  S 486. Practice of law by attorney who has been disbarred,  suspended,
or  convicted  of a felony. Any person whose admission to practice as an
attorney and counselor-at-law has been revoked or who has  been  removed
from  office  as attorney and counselor-at-law or, being an attorney and

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

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