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2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal impersonation of
a certified first responder, an emergency medical technician, an
advanced emergency medical technician, or a firefighter
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 190.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 5 to read as follows:
5. PRETENDS TO BE A POLICE OFFICER, CERTIFIED FIRST RESPONDER, EMER-
GENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, OR
FIREFIGHTER WITHOUT ANY ACTUAL OR IMPLIED AUTHORITY TO DO SO.
S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 190.26 of the penal law, as amended by
chapter 434 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
1. Pretends to be a police officer [or a], federal law enforcement
officer as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law,
CERTIFIED FIRST RESPONDER, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, ADVANCED EMER-
GENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR FIREFIGHTER, or wears or displays without
authority, any uniform, badge or other insignia or facsimile thereof, by
which such police officer [or], federal law enforcement officer, CERTI-
FIED FIRST RESPONDER, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, ADVANCED EMERGENCY
MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR FIREFIGHTER is lawfully distinguished; or
expresses by his or her words or actions that he or she is acting with
the approval or authority of any police department or acting as a feder-
al law enforcement officer with the approval of any agency that employs
federal law enforcement officers as enumerated in section 2.15 of the
criminal procedure law; and
S 3. 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
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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