Bill Text: NY A07175 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a person is guilty of arson in the first degree when he intentionally damages a building or motor vehicle by causing an explosion or a fire and when such explosion or fire is accelerated by use of ignitable liquid or flammable gas.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A07175 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07175-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7175
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 10, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to arson in the first degree
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 150.20 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  950
     2  of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 150.20 Arson in the first degree.
     4    1.  A  person  is  guilty  of arson in the first degree when he inten-
     5  tionally damages a building or motor vehicle by causing an explosion  or
     6  a  fire  and when (a) such explosion or fire is caused by or accelerated
     7  by use of ignitable liquid or flammable  gas  or  an  incendiary  device
     8  propelled,  thrown  [or],  placed  or otherwise dispersed or distributed
     9  inside or near such building or motor vehicle; or when such explosion or
    10  fire is caused by an explosive; or when such explosion  or  fire  either
    11  (i)  causes  serious  physical  injury  to  another  person other than a
    12  participant, or (ii) the explosion or fire was caused with the  expecta-
    13  tion or receipt of financial advantage or pecuniary profit by the actor;
    14  and  when  (b)  another  person who is not a participant in the crime is
    15  present in such building or motor vehicle  at  the  time;  and  (c)  the
    16  defendant knows that fact or the circumstances are such as to render the
    17  presence of such person therein a reasonable possibility.
    18    2.  As  used  in  this section, "incendiary device" means a [breakable
    19  container]  device  designed  to  [explode   or]   produce   uncontained
    20  combustion  [upon  impact, containing flammable liquid and having a wick
    21  or a similar device capable of being ignited] or used  as  a  source  of
    22  ignition.
    23    Arson in the first degree is a class A-I felony.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03094-01-9