Bill Text: NY A00648 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a punishment for stealing and/or possessing memorial plaques; provides that a scrap metal processor shall have his or her license permanently revoked upon the conviction of possessing a stolen memorial plaque.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to codes [A00648 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00648-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          648
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes
       AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to stolen memorial plaques;
         and to amend the general business law, in relation to  the  revocation
         of scrap metal processors' licenses
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 155.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
    2  subdivision 12 to read as follows:
    3    12.  THE  VALUE  OF  THE  PROPERTY EXCEEDS ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND THE
    4  PROPERTY CONSISTS OF A MEMORIAL PLAQUE, STATUE OR OTHER ITEM OR PROPERTY
    5  THAT IS KEPT OR USED IN  CONNECTION  WITH  MEMORIAL  OBSERVANCE  IN  ANY
    6  BUILDING, STRUCTURE, PARK, OR OTHER VENUE.
    7    S 2. Section 165.45 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
    8  vision 8 to read as follows:
    9    8. THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY EXCEEDS ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND THE PROP-
   10  ERTY  CONSISTS  OF  A  MEMORIAL PLAQUE, STATUE OR OTHER ITEM OR PROPERTY
   11  THAT IS KEPT OR USED IN  CONNECTION  WITH  MEMORIAL  OBSERVANCE  IN  ANY
   12  BUILDING, STRUCTURE, PARK, OR OTHER VENUE.
   13    S 3. The opening paragraph of section 69-f of the general business law
   14  is  designated subdivision 1 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as
   15  follows:
   16    2. IF ANY PERSON IS CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPER-
   17  TY IN THE FOURTH DEGREE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF SECTION  165.45
   18  OF  THE  PENAL  LAW, SUCH PERSON'S LICENSE, WHICH WAS ISSUED PURSUANT TO
   19  THIS ARTICLE, SHALL BE REVOKED PERMANENTLY.
   20    S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01816-01-5