Bill Text: NY A04400 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a person is guilty of loitering when such person remains in a transportation facility, within twenty-five feet of the token booth or similar location, for more than twenty-five minutes unless authorized to do so or unless the facility's design would make it impossible to maintain a greater distance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A04400 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04400-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4400
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK, WEPRIN, ORTIZ, COLTON, PICHARDO -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. DAVILA --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to loitering
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 240.35 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  Loiters  or remains in any transportation facility, within twenty-
     4  five feet of the token booth or similar location, for more than  twenty-
     5  five minutes, unless specifically authorized to do so, unless because of
     6  the  facility's  size  or design it would be impossible to maintain such
     7  distance.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  next  succeeding
     9  the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08043-01-9