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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 3, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to including filing certain
   building permit applications  containing  false  statements  regarding
   tenant  occupancy  in  the  offense of offering a false instrument for
   filing in the first degree

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 175.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 490
 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 § 175.35 Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
   A person is guilty of offering a false instrument for  filing  in  the
 first degree when:
   1.  knowing  that  a  written instrument contains a false statement or
 false information, and with intent to defraud the state or any political
 subdivision, public authority  or  public  benefit  corporation  of  the
 state, [he or she] SUCH PERSON offers or presents it to a public office,
 public  servant, public authority or public benefit corporation with the
 knowledge or belief that it will be filed with, registered  or  recorded
 in  or  otherwise  become  a  part of the records of such public office,
 public servant, public authority or public benefit corporation; or
   2. (a) [he or she] SUCH PERSON commits the crime of offering  a  false
 instrument for filing in the second degree; and
   (b) such instrument is a financing statement the contents of which are
 prescribed by section 9--502 of the uniform commercial code, the collat-
 eral  asserted  to  be  covered  in  such statement is the property of a
 person who is a state or local officer as defined by section two of  the
 public  officers  law  or  who  otherwise  is  a judge or justice of the
 unified court system, such financing statement does  not  relate  to  an
 actual  transaction,  and  [he  or she] SUCH PERSON filed such financing

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 statement in retaliation for the performance of official duties by  such
 person; OR
   3. WITH INTENT TO OBTAIN A BUILDING PERMIT IN VIOLATION OF AN EXISTING
 LAW,  RULE  OR  REGULATION,  SUCH  PERSON OFFERS OR PRESENTS TO A PUBLIC
 OFFICE, PUBLIC SERVANT, PUBLIC AUTHORITY OR PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION A
 BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION FOR PURPOSES OF DEMOLISHING OR SIGNIFICANTLY
 RENOVATING A PROPERTY LOCATED IN A  CITY  HAVING  A  POPULATION  OF  ONE
 MILLION  OR  MORE PERSONS, KNOWING THAT SUCH BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION
 CONTAINS A FALSE STATEMENT OR FALSE INFORMATION REGARDING THE EXTENT  OF
 THE TENANT OCCUPANCY.
   Offering  a false instrument for filing in the first degree is a class
 E felony.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.