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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. WEPRIN, HYNDMAN, HEVESI, LUCAS, LAVINE, BLUMEN-
   CRANZ, BENDETT,  DINOWITZ,  BRABENEC,  BLANKENBUSH,  JACOBSON,  STECK,
   ANGELINO, STERN, TAPIA, PAULIN, SLATER, LUNSFORD -- Multi-Sponsored by
   --  M.  of A.  LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Codes
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
   staging a construction site accident
 
   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 176.85  to
 read as follows:
 § 176.85 STAGING A CONSTRUCTION SITE ACCIDENT.
   A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF STAGING A CONSTRUCTION SITE ACCIDENT WHEN, WITH
 INTENT TO COMMIT AND IN FURTHERANCE OF A FRAUDULENT INSURANCE ACT,  SUCH
 PERSON  ENTERS  A CONSTRUCTION SITE AND INTENTIONALLY STAGES AN ACCIDENT
 ON SUCH SITE WITH THE INTENT TO FILE AN  INSURANCE  CLAIM,  OR  DIRECTS,
 HIRES,  REQUESTS, ENCOURAGES, ORCHESTRATES OR INVITES ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL
 TO ENTER A CONSTRUCTION SITE AND INTENTIONALLY STAGE AN ACCIDENT ON SUCH
 SITE WITH THE INTENT TO FILE AN INSURANCE CLAIM.
   STAGING A CONSTRUCTION SITE ACCIDENT IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07801-01-5