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Assembly Bill A2703

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale of forged instruments and includes the sale and manufacture of government issued documents in class C felony of forgery in the first degree

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2013-A2703 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §170,00, add §§170.36, 170.37 & 170.38, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9403
2015-2016: A4603
2017-2018: A6149

2013-A2703 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale of forged instruments; creates the crimes of criminal sale of a forged instrument in the third, second and first degree.

2013-A2703 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2703

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 17, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to forged instruments and the
  sale thereof

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

  Section  1. Section 170.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 9 to read as follows:
  9. "SELL" MEANS TO SELL TO ANOTHER FOR CONSIDERATION.
  S 2. The penal law is amended by adding  three  new  sections  170.36,
170.37 and 170.38 to read as follows:
S 170.36 CRIMINAL SALE OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
  A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF  CRIMINAL SALE OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT IN THE
THIRD DEGREE WHEN, WITH KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS FORGED AND WITH  INTENT  TO
DEFRAUD, DECEIVE OR INJURE ANOTHER, HE OR SHE SELLS A FORGED INSTRUMENT.
  CRIMINAL  SALE OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT IN THE THIRD DEGREE IS A CLASS A
MISDEMEANOR.
S 170.37 CRIMINAL SALE OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL SALE OF  A  FORGED  INSTRUMENT  IN  THE
SECOND  DEGREE WHEN, WITH KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS FORGED AND WITH INTENT TO
DEFRAUD, DECEIVE OR INJURE ANOTHER, HE OR SHE SELLS ANY  FORGED  INSTRU-
MENT OF A KIND SPECIFIED IN SECTION 170.10 OF THIS ARTICLE.
  CRIMINAL SALE OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A CLASS D
FELONY.
S 170.38 CRIMINAL SALE OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
  A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF  CRIMINAL SALE OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT IN THE
FIRST DEGREE WHEN, WITH KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS FORGED AND WITH  INTENT  TO
DEFRAUD,  DECEIVE  OR INJURE ANOTHER, HE OR SHE SELLS ANY FORGED INSTRU-
MENT OF A KIND SPECIFIED IN SECTION 170.15 OF THIS ARTICLE.
  CRIMINAL SALE OF A FORGED INSTRUMENT IN THE FIRST DEGREE IS A CLASS  C
FELONY.
  S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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