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Assembly Bill A10643A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the criminal impersonation of an employee of a public utility company or corporation

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2015-A10643 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7338
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §190.26, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A1892, A10564, S3882
2019-2020: A2187, S2661
2021-2022: A3431

2015-A10643 - Summary

Adds the act of pretending to be an employee of a public utility company or corporation for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon a premises to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree, a class E felony.

2015-A10643 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10643

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 10, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Harris) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal impersonation  of
  an employee of a utility company

  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 AN EMPLOYEE OF A UTILITY COMPANY WITHOUT ANY ACTUAL
OR IMPLIED AUTHORITY TO DO SO.
  S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 190.26 of the penal  law,  as  added  by
chapter 2 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  3.  Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person author-
ized to issue a prescription for any drug or any  instrument  or  device
used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral prescription which
is  required  to  be reduced to writing pursuant to section thirty-three
hundred thirty-two of the public health law; OR
  4. PRETENDS TO BE AN EMPLOYEE  OF  A  UTILITY  COMPANY,  OR  WEARS  OR
DISPLAYS  WITHOUT  AUTHORITY,  ANY  UNIFORM,  BADGE OR OTHER INSIGNIA OR
FACSIMILE THEREOF, BY WHICH SUCH EMPLOYEE IS LAWFULLY DISTINGUISHED  AND
DOES  SO  WITH  THE INTENT TO INDUCE ANOTHER TO SUBMIT TO SUCH PRETENDED
AUTHORITY OR OTHERWISE ACT IN RELIANCE UPON  SAID  PRETENSE  COMMITS  OR
ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT A FELONY.
  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.
                                                           LBD14835-01-6

2015-A10643A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7338
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §190.26, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A1892, A10564, S3882
2019-2020: A2187, S2661
2021-2022: A3431

2015-A10643A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds the act of pretending to be an employee of a public utility company or corporation for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon a premises to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree, a class E felony.

2015-A10643A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                10643--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 10, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Harris) --
  read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal impersonation of
  an employee of a public utility company or corporation

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

  Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 190.26 of the penal law, as added
by chapter 2 of the laws of 1998, is amended and a new subdivision 4  is
added to read as follows:
  3.  Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person author-
ized to issue a prescription for any drug or any  instrument  or  device
used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral prescription which
is  required  to  be reduced to writing pursuant to section thirty-three
hundred thirty-two of the public health law[.]; OR
  4. PRETENDS TO BE AN EMPLOYEE OF A PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY OR A  PUBLIC
UTILITY  CORPORATION AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE LAW
FOR THE PURPOSE OF KNOWINGLY ENTERING OR REMAINING UNLAWFULLY IN OR UPON
A PREMISES.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14835-02-6

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