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Assembly Bill A1984

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides a punishment for stealing and/or possessing memorial plaques

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2017-A1984 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§155.30 & 165.45, Pen L; amd §69-f, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A183
2011-2012: A434
2013-2014: A1331
2015-2016: A648
2019-2020: A1654

2017-A1984 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a punishment for stealing and/or possessing memorial plaques; provides that a scrap metal processor shall have his or her license permanently revoked upon the conviction of possessing a stolen memorial plaque.

2017-A1984 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1984
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to stolen memorial plaques;
   and to amend the general business law, in relation to  the  revocation
   of scrap metal processors' licenses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 155.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
 subdivision 12 to read as follows:
   12.  THE  VALUE  OF  THE  PROPERTY EXCEEDS ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND THE
 PROPERTY CONSISTS OF A MEMORIAL PLAQUE, STATUE OR OTHER ITEM OR PROPERTY
 THAT IS KEPT OR USED IN  CONNECTION  WITH  MEMORIAL  OBSERVANCE  IN  ANY
 BUILDING, STRUCTURE, PARK, OR OTHER VENUE.
   § 2. Section 165.45 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 vision 8 to read as follows:
   8. THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY EXCEEDS ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND THE PROP-
 ERTY  CONSISTS  OF  A  MEMORIAL PLAQUE, STATUE OR OTHER ITEM OR PROPERTY
 THAT IS KEPT OR USED IN  CONNECTION  WITH  MEMORIAL  OBSERVANCE  IN  ANY
 BUILDING, STRUCTURE, PARK, OR OTHER VENUE.
   § 3. The opening paragraph of section 69-f of the general business law
 is  designated subdivision 1 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as
 follows:
   2. IF ANY PERSON IS CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPER-
 TY IN THE FOURTH DEGREE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF SECTION  165.45
 OF  THE  PENAL  LAW, SUCH PERSON'S LICENSE, WHICH WAS ISSUED PURSUANT TO
 THIS ARTICLE, SHALL BE REVOKED PERMANENTLY.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03406-01-7

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