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Assembly Bill A3558

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of display of sexual material in a vehicle

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2017-A3558 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §245.12, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7618
2011-2012: A1560
2013-2014: A5193
2015-2016: A8426
2019-2020: A2708

2017-A3558 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of display of sexual material in a vehicle while on display in a public place.

2017-A3558 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3558
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime  of  display  of
   sexual material in a vehicle
 
   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 245.12  to
 read as follows:
 § 245.12 DISPLAY OF SEXUAL MATERIAL IN A VEHICLE.
   1.  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF DISPLAY OF SEXUAL MATERIAL IN A VEHICLE WHEN
 HE OR SHE IS IN A VEHICLE THAT IS LOCATED IN A PUBLIC PLACE AND A  SEXU-
 ALLY  EXPLICIT  VIDEO IS BEING DISPLAYED ON A VIDEO OR TELEVISION SCREEN
 LOCATED WITHIN THAT VEHICLE THAT IS CAPABLE OF BEING SEEN  BY  A  PERSON
 WHO IS NOT LOCATED WITHIN THE VEHICLE.
   2.  THE  CRIME  OF  DISPLAY  OF  SEXUAL MATERIAL IN A VEHICLE SHALL BE
 PUNISHABLE BY UP TO TWO THOUSAND HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE.
   3. ANY PERSON CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF DISPLAY OF SEXUAL MATERIAL  IN
 A  VEHICLE  SHALL,  IN  ADDITION TO ANY COMMUNITY SERVICE REQUIRED TO BE
 PERFORMED, HAVE ONE POINT ADDED TO HIS OR HER DRIVING RECORD.
   DISPLAY OF SEXUAL MATERIAL IN A VEHICLE IS A VIOLATION.
   § 2. The commissioner of motor vehicles is authorized and directed  to
 implement  and/or  amend any rule or regulation necessary for the timely
 implementation of this act on its effective date.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08374-01-7

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