Bill Text: NY S02661 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds the act of pretending to be an employee of a public utility company or corporation for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon a premises to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree, a class E felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to codes [S02661 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02661-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2661
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 criminal impersonation  of
          an employee of a public utility company or corporation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 190.26 of the penal law, as  added
     2  by  chapter 2 of the laws of 1998, is amended and a new subdivision 4 is
     3  added to read as follows:
     4    3. Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person  author-
     5  ized  to  issue  a prescription for any drug or any instrument or device
     6  used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
     7  required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral prescription which
     8  is required to be reduced to writing pursuant  to  section  thirty-three
     9  hundred thirty-two of the public health law[.]; or
    10    4.  Pretends to be an employee of a public utility company or a public
    11  utility corporation as defined in section two of the public service  law
    12  for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon
    13  a premises.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03971-01-9