S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
September 9, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Durso) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating the crime of
unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.45 to
read as follows:
§ 270.45 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A RADIO FREQUENCY JAMMING DEVICE.
A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A RADIO FREQUENCY JAMMING
DEVICE WHEN, HAVING NO RIGHT TO DO SO, THEY KNOWINGLY POSSESS A DEVICE
CAPABLE OF DISRUPTING AND/OR INTERFERING WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
THROUGH RADIO NOISE OR SIGNALS.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A RADIO FREQUENCY JAMMING DEVICE IS A CLASS D
FELONY.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16225-01-2