Bill Text: NY S00176 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree when he or she steals property and is in possession of an anti-security item; makes criminal possession of an anti-security item a class A misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00176 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00176-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           176
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. MARCHIONE, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the possession of anti-se-
          curity items
          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 property is taken by a person who is in possession of an anti-
     4  security  item.  For  the purposes of this subdivision an "anti-security
     5  item" is defined as an item  designed  for  the  purpose  of  overcoming
     6  detection of security markings or attachments placed on property offered
     7  for sale at such an establishment.
     8    §  2.  Section 170.47 of the penal law, as added by chapter 580 of the
     9  laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
    10  § 170.47 Criminal possession of an anti-security item.
    11    A person is guilty of criminal possession of  an  anti-security  item,
    12  when  with intent to steal property at a retail mercantile establishment
    13  as defined in article twelve-B of the general business law, he knowingly
    14  possesses in such an establishment an item designed for the  purpose  of
    15  overcoming detection of security markings or attachments placed on prop-
    16  erty offered for sale at such an establishment.
    17    Criminal  possession  of an anti-security item is a class [B] A misde-
    18  meanor.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    20  ing 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.
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