Bill Text: NY A04512 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of any badge, shield, identification card or other insignia of any police department or law enforcement agency or a facsimile of such a badge or shield; imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $250 for each violation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to economic development [A04512 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04512-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4512 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the unlawful sale of law enforcement identification The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 139 to read as follows: 3 § 139. Unlawful sale of law enforcement insignia. No person shall sell 4 any badge, shield, identification card or other insignia of any police 5 department or law enforcement agency of any county, city, town, village, 6 commission or authority of this state, or a facsimile of any such badge, 7 shield, identification card or insignia except as authorized by rule or 8 regulation adopted by such police department or law enforcement agency. 9 A violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a 10 civil penalty of not more than two hundred fifty dollars for each 11 violation. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09505-01-3
