Senate Bill S2661

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the criminal impersonation of an employee of a public utility company or corporation

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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-S2661 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2187
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §190.26, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7338, A10643
2017-2018: S3882, A1892, A10564
2021-2022: A3431

2019-S2661 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds the act of pretending to be an employee of a public utility company or corporation for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon a premises to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree, a class E felony.

2019-S2661 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2661 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2661
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 criminal impersonation  of
   an employee of a public utility company or corporation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 190.26 of the penal law, as  added
 by  chapter 2 of the laws of 1998, is amended and a new subdivision 4 is
 added to read as follows:
   3. Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person  author-
 ized  to  issue  a prescription for any drug or any instrument or device
 used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
 required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral prescription which
 is required to be reduced to writing pursuant  to  section  thirty-three
 hundred thirty-two of the public health law[.]; OR
   4.  PRETENDS TO BE AN EMPLOYEE OF A PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY OR A PUBLIC
 UTILITY CORPORATION AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE  LAW
 FOR THE PURPOSE OF KNOWINGLY ENTERING OR REMAINING UNLAWFULLY IN OR UPON
 A PREMISES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03971-01-9

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