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Senate Bill S6213

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting jumping from a building or bridge over 50 feet in height

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2015-S6213 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง120.25, Pen L

2015-S6213 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that jumping from a building of 5 stories or higher, or from a bridge or other structure over 50 feet shall constitute reckless endangerment in the first degree.

2015-S6213 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6213 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6213

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 6, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to reckless  endangerment  in
  the first degree

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

  Section 1. Section 120.25 of the penal  law  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
S 120.25 Reckless endangerment in the first degree.
  A  person is guilty of reckless endangerment in the first degree when,
under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human  life,  he
recklessly  engages  in  conduct  which creates a grave risk of death to
another person.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, IT IS DEEMED TO BE  A
CIRCUMSTANCE  EVINCING  A  DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE TO HUMAN LIFE WHEN IN A
CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE  A  PERSON  LEAPS  FROM  A
BUILDING  FROM  THE  FIFTH  STORY OR HIGHER, OR FROM ANY BRIDGE OR OTHER
STRUCTURE AT A HEIGHT OF FIFTY FEET  OR  GREATER,  WITHOUT  THE  WRITTEN
PERMISSION  FROM  BOTH  THE  OWNER  AND  THE  CITY. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS
SECTION, WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE  CITY  SHALL  MEAN  AND  INCLUDE  A
RESOLUTION  OR  LOCAL  LAW  APPROVED  BY  THE CITY COUNCIL, OR A PERMIT,
LICENSE OR WRITTEN INSTRUMENT VALIDLY ISSUED  GRANTING  SUCH  PERMISSION
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR OF SUCH CITY, FOR WHICH THE CITY MAY CHARGE
A FEE.
  Reckless endangerment in the first degree is a class D felony.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11855-03-5

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