S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. RODRIGUEZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal trespass and
burglary upon the premises of a pharmacy
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 140.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 6 to read as follows:
6. "PHARMACY" MEANS THAT AREA WITHIN A BUILDING AT WHICH THE PRACTICE
OF THE PROFESSION OF PHARMACY IS CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE
HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 140.15 of the penal law, as amended by
chapter 315 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
1. he or she knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling OR A
PHARMACY; or
§ 3. Subdivision 2 of section 140.25 of the penal law, as amended by
chapter 361 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
2. The building is a dwelling, OR THE PORTION OF THE BUILDING THAT IS
A PHARMACY.
§ 4. The opening paragraph of section 140.30 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 361 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
follows:
A person is guilty of burglary in the first degree when he OR SHE
knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling OR A PHARMACY with
intent to commit a crime therein, and when, in effecting entry or while
in the dwelling or in immediate flight therefrom, he OR SHE or another
participant in the crime:
§ 5. This act shall take effect on the first of November next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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