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Assembly Bill A5029

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes the combination of certain petit larceny charges

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2023-A5029 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §155.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A4141

2023-A5029 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person who has previously been subjected to two or more petit larceny convictions within 18 months immediately preceding the charge and the aggregate value of the property exceeds one thousand dollars, the person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree.

2023-A5029 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5029
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. REILLY, TANNOUSIS -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  allowing  prosecutors  to
   combine certain charges
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 9, 10 and 11 of section 155.30  of  the  penal
 law, subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2010, subdi-
 vision 10 as added by chapter 491 of the laws of 1992 and subdivision 11
 as  added  by  chapter  394  of  the laws of 2005, are amended and a new
 subdivision 12 is added to read as follows:
   9. The property consists of a scroll, religious vestment, a vessel, an
 item comprising a display of religious symbols which forms  a  represen-
 tative  expression  of  faith,  or  other miscellaneous item of property
 which:
   (a) has a value of at least one hundred dollars; and
   (b) is kept for or used in connection with religious  worship  in  any
 building,  structure or upon the curtilage of such building or structure
 used as a place of religious worship  by  a  religious  corporation,  as
 incorporated  under  the  religious  corporations  law  or the education
 law[.]; OR
   10. The property consists of an access device which the person intends
 to use unlawfully to obtain telephone service[.]; OR
   11. The property consists of anhydrous ammonia  or  liquified  ammonia
 gas  and  the  actor  intends to use, or knows another person intends to
 use, such anhydrous ammonia or  liquified  ammonia  gas  to  manufacture
 methamphetamine[.]; OR
   12.  SUCH  PERSON  HAS  PREVIOUSLY BEEN SUBJECTED TO TWO OR MORE PETIT
 LARCENY CONVICTIONS AS DEFINED IN SECTION 155.25 OF THIS ARTICLE  WITHIN
 THE  EIGHTEEN MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE CHARGE UNDER THIS SECTION
 AND THE AGGREGATE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY EXCEEDS ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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