Senate Bill S9473

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides that impersonation of a disabled veteran vendor is a class A misdemeanor

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes 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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2023-S9473 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §190.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1956
2011-2012: S4726
2013-2014: S371
2015-2016: S750
2017-2018: S671
2019-2020: S586
2021-2022: S5322

2023-S9473 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that impersonation of a disabled veteran vendor, by carrying or possessing a specialized vending license without authority or any form of insignia or by words or actions is a class A misdemeanor.

2023-S9473 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9473 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9473
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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
   a disabled veteran vendor
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 190.25 of the penal law, the section heading, open-
 ing paragraph, and closing paragraph as amended by  chapter  27  of  the
 laws of 1980, subdivisions 3 and 4 as amended and subdivision 5 as added
 by chapter 739 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 § 190.25 Criminal impersonation in the second degree.
   A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the second degree when
 [he] SUCH PERSON:
   1. Impersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with
 intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another; or
   2.  Pretends to be a representative of some person or organization and
 does an act in such pretended capacity with intent to obtain  a  benefit
 or to injure or defraud another; or
   3.  (a)  Pretends to be a public servant, or wears or displays without
 authority any uniform, badge, insignia or  facsimile  thereof  by  which
 such  public  servant is lawfully distinguished, or falsely expresses by
 [his] SUCH PERSON'S words or actions that [he] SUCH PERSON is  a  public
 servant  or  is  acting with approval or authority of a public agency or
 department; and (b) so acts with intent to induce another to  submit  to
 such  pretended  official  authority,  to  solicit funds or to otherwise
 cause another to act in reliance upon that pretense; or
   4. Impersonates another by communication by internet website or  elec-
 tronic means with intent to obtain a benefit or injure or defraud anoth-
 er, or by such communication pretends to be a public servant in order to
 induce  another  to  submit to such authority or act in reliance on such
 pretense; or
   5. Impersonates another person, without such  other  person's  permis-
 sion,  by  using  the other person's electronic signature with intent to
 obtain a benefit or injure  or  defraud  the  other  person  or  another
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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