Assembly Bill A4800

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to falsely impersonating an attorney

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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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2021-A4800 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§485, 485-a, 486 & 495, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9860
2015-2016: A2465
2017-2018: A3753, A10893
2019-2020: A6383

2021-A4800 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the penalty for falsely impersonating an attorney or acting as an attorney to a class E felony from a misdemeanor.

2021-A4800 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4800
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation  to  feloniously  falsely
   impersonating an attorney
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 485 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 492
 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   § 485. Violation of certain preceding sections a misdemeanor.  [Except
 as  provided in section four hundred eighty-five-a of this article, any]
 ANY person violating the provisions of section  [four  hundred  seventy-
 eight,]  four  hundred  seventy-nine,  four hundred eighty, four hundred
 eighty-one, four hundred eighty-two, OR four  hundred  eighty-three  [or
 four hundred eighty-four] of this article[,] shall be guilty of a misde-
 meanor.
   §  2.  Section 485-a of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 22 of
 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   § 485-a. Violation of certain sections a class E  felony.  Any  person
 who violates the provisions of sections four hundred seventy-eight, four
 hundred eighty-four, four hundred eighty-six or four hundred ninety-five
 of  this  article  is  guilty  of a class E felony when he or she[: (1)]
 falsely holds himself or herself out as a person  licensed  to  practice
 law  in this state, a person otherwise permitted to practice law in this
 state, or a person who can provide  services  that  only  attorneys  are
 authorized to provide[; and (2) causes another person to suffer monetary
 loss  or damages exceeding one thousand dollars or other material damage
 resulting from impairment of a legal right to which he or she  is  enti-
 tled].
   §  3.  Section  486 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 492 of
 the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06854-01-1
              

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