Bill Text: NY S04983 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the crime of exposure of a female or male.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04983 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04983-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4983 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- 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 crime of exposure of a person The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 245.01 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 633 2 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 245.01 Exposure of a person. 4 A person is guilty of exposure if he or she appears in a public place 5 in such a manner that the private or intimate parts of his or her body 6 are unclothed or exposed. For purposes of this section, the private or 7 intimate parts of a female or male person shall include that portion of 8 the breast which is below the top of the areola. This section shall not 9 apply to the breastfeeding of infants or [to any person entertaining or10performing in a play, exhibition, show or entertainment] to any person 11 at a beach or pool. 12 Exposure of a person is a violation. 13 Nothing in this section shall prevent the adoption by a city, town or 14 village of a local law prohibiting exposure of a person as herein 15 defined in a public place, at any time[, whether or not such person is16entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition, show or enter-17tainment]. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07379-01-7