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Assembly Bill A6260

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Establishes the offenses of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree and offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree

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2015-A6260 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง175.30 & 175.35, Pen L

2015-A6260 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes electronic documents in the offenses of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree and offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree.

2015-A6260 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6260

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 18, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including electronic docu-
  ments in the offenses of offering a false instrument for filing in the
  first degree and offering a false instrument for filing in the  second
  degree

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

  Section 1. Section 175.30 of the penal  law  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
S 175.30 Offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree.
  A  person  is  guilty of offering a false instrument for filing in the
second degree when, knowing that  a  written  OR  ELECTRONIC  instrument
contains  a  false statement or false information, he offers, SUBMITS or
presents it to a public office or public servant with the  knowledge  or
belief  that  it will be filed with, registered or recorded in or other-
wise become a part of the records of such public office or public  serv-
ant.
  Offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree is a class
A misdemeanor.
  S  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 175.35 of the penal law, as amended by
chapter 490 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  knowing that a written OR ELECTRONIC instrument contains  a  false
statement  or false information, and with intent to defraud the state or
any political subdivision, public authority  or  public  benefit  corpo-
ration  of  the  state,  he  or  she offers, SUBMITS or presents it to a
public office, public servant, public authority or public benefit corpo-
ration with the knowledge or belief that it will be filed  with,  regis-
tered  or  recorded in or otherwise become a part of the records of such
public office, public servant, public authority or public benefit corpo-
ration; or
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.

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

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