Senate Bill S2251

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Includes filing certain building permit applications containing false statements regarding tenant occupancy in the offense of offering a false instrument for filing in the first 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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2019-S2251 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §175.35, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8573
2021-2022: S368
2023-2024: S1534

2019-S2251 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes filing certain building permit applications containing false statements regarding tenant occupancy in the offense of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.

2019-S2251 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2251 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2251
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 23, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, BAILEY, KRUEGER, PERSAUD, SEPULVEDA -- 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 including  filing  certain
   building  permit  applications  containing  false statements regarding
   tenant occupancy in the offense of offering  a  false  instrument  for
   filing in the first degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 175.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  490
 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 § 175.35 Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
   A  person  is  guilty of offering a false instrument for filing in the
 first degree when:
   1. knowing that a written instrument contains  a  false  statement  or
 false information, and with intent to defraud the state or any political
 subdivision,  public  authority  or  public  benefit  corporation of the
 state, he or she offers or presents it to a public office, public  serv-
 ant,  public  authority or public benefit corporation with the knowledge
 or belief that it will be filed  with,  registered  or  recorded  in  or
 otherwise  become  a  part  of the records of such public office, public
 servant, public authority or public benefit corporation; or
   2. (a) he or she commits the crime of offering a false instrument  for
 filing in the second degree; and
   (b) such instrument is a financing statement the contents of which are
 prescribed by section 9--502 of the uniform commercial code, the collat-
 eral  asserted  to  be  covered  in  such statement is the property of a
 person who is a state or local officer as defined by section two of  the
 public  officers  law  or  who  otherwise  is  a judge or justice of the
 unified court system, such financing statement does  not  relate  to  an
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08558-01-9
              

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