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Assembly Bill A6438

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Creates crime of tampering with a taximeter

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2015-A6438 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง145.75, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1289
2011-2012: A2187
2013-2014: A2940

2015-A6438 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a class E felony crime of tampering with a taximeter when a person, with intent to increase the fare displayed by a taximeter to an amount above the maximum amount permitted by local law, tampers with a taximeter.

2015-A6438 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6438

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 24, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal tampering with a
  taximeter

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

  Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 145.75 to
read as follows:
S 145.75  TAMPERING WITH A TAXIMETER.
  1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A "TAXIMETER" MEANS AN INSTRUMENT  OR
DEVICE  THAT  AUTOMATICALLY  CALCULATES  AND  DISPLAYS  THE  CHARGE TO A
PASSENGER IN A VEHICLE THAT IS LICENSED  TO  TRANSPORT  MEMBERS  OF  THE
PUBLIC FOR HIRE PURSUANT TO LOCAL LAW.
  2.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, A "TAXIMETER ACCELERATING DEVICE"
MEANS AN INSTRUMENT OR DEVICE THAT CAUSES A TAXIMETER  TO  INCREASE  THE
CHARGE  DISPLAYED BY THE TAXIMETER TO AN AMOUNT ABOVE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT
PERMITTED BY LOCAL LAW.
  3. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF TAMPERING WITH A TAXIMETER WHEN, WITH  INTENT
TO  INCREASE  THE  FARE  DISPLAYED BY A TAXIMETER TO AN AMOUNT ABOVE THE
MAXIMUM AMOUNT PERMITTED BY LOCAL LAW,  HE  OR  SHE  TAMPERS  WITH  SUCH
TAXIMETER  OR ATTACHES OR OTHERWISE USES A TAXIMETER ACCELERATING DEVICE
TO CAUSE ANY SIGNAL, IMPULSE OR DATA TO BE FED INTO  OR  TRANSMITTED  TO
SUCH TAXIMETER.
  TAMPERING WITH A TAXIMETER IS A CLASS E FELONY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05064-01-5

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