Senate Bill S227

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Makes intentional damage to an authorized emergency vehicle a crime of criminal mischief in the third degree

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S227 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9771
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §145.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2119, A10204
2011-2012: S2209, A5197
2013-2014: S4390, A5846
2015-2016: S802, A8254

2017-S227 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes intentional damage to an authorized emergency vehicle a crime of criminal mischief in the third degree.

2017-S227 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    227
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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 intentional damage  to  an
   authorized emergency vehicle

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 145.05 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  276
 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
 § 145.05 Criminal mischief in the third degree.
   A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the third degree when, with
 intent  to  damage property of another person, and having no right to do
 so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has  such  right,
 he or she:
   1.  damages the motor vehicle of another person, by breaking into such
 vehicle when it is locked with the  intent  of  stealing  property,  and
 within  the  previous  ten year period, has been convicted three or more
 times, in separate criminal transactions for which sentence was  imposed
 on  separate  occasions,  of  criminal  mischief in the fourth degree as
 defined in section 145.00, criminal mischief  in  the  third  degree  as
 defined  in  this  section,  criminal  mischief  in the second degree as
 defined in section 145.10, or criminal mischief in the first  degree  as
 defined in section 145.12 of this article; or
   2.  damages  property  of  another  person  in an amount exceeding two
 hundred fifty dollars; OR
   3. DAMAGES AN AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN  SECTION  ONE
 HUNDRED ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   Criminal mischief in the third degree is a class E felony.
   §  2.  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.

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