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                                   1752
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2019
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 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the general obligations law, in relation to requiring
   mercantile establishments to cease collections upon a court finding of
   not guilty of larceny in mercantile establishments
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11-105 of the general obligations law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
   13.  CESSATION  OF  COLLECTIONS  UPON FINDING OF NOT GUILTY. AN ADULT,
 EMANCIPATED MINOR, OR THE PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS OF AN UNEMANCIPATED
 MINOR WHO IS FOUND NOT GUILTY  IN  ANY  PROCEEDING  BROUGHT  UNDER  THIS
 SECTION  SHALL  NOT  BE CIVILLY LIABLE TO THE OPERATOR OF THE MERCANTILE
 ESTABLISHMENT BRINGING THE PROCEEDING AND ANY ATTEMPTS TO COLLECT  MONEY
 OR RECOVER MERCHANDISE FROM THE ADULT, EMANCIPATED MINOR, OR THE PARENTS
 OR LEGAL GUARDIANS OF AN UNEMANCIPATED MINOR SHALL IMMEDIATELY CEASE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07066-01-9