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Assembly Bill A9128

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Includes in class A misdemeanor of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree, dissemination of image to porn website without consent

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2013-A9128 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง250.55, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A2525
2017-2018: A3689

2013-A9128 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes in class A misdemeanor of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree, the dissemination of an image of a person to a computer network internet website that is obscene, without the consent or knowledge of the person in the image.

2013-A9128 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9128

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 19, 2014
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  prohibiting  the  dissem-
  ination of any image of a person to an obscene internet website, with-
  out such person's knowledge or consent

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

  Section 1. Section 250.55 of the penal law, as added by chapter 69  of
the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
S 250.55 Dissemination  of  an unlawful surveillance image in the second
           degree.
  A person is guilty of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance  image
in the second degree when [he]:
  1. HE or she, with knowledge of the unlawful conduct by which an image
or  images  of  the  sexual or other intimate parts of another person or
persons were obtained and such unlawful conduct would satisfy the essen-
tial elements of the crime of unlawful  surveillance  in  the  first  or
second degree, intentionally disseminates such image or images[.]; OR
  2.  WITHOUT  THE  KNOWLEDGE  OR  CONSENT  OF ANOTHER PERSON, HE OR SHE
DISSEMINATES AN IMAGE OF THAT PERSON WHICH HE OR SHE KNOWS  IS  OBSCENE,
TO A COMPUTER NETWORK INTERNET WEBSITE. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION,
"OBSCENE"  SHALL  HAVE  THE SAME MEANING AS IT IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
ONE OF SECTION 235.00 OF THIS PART.
  Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the  second  degree
is a class A misdemeanor.
  S 2. 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.
                                                           LBD06429-01-3

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