Bill Text: NY S06343 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to theft of services from barbershops, salons or beauty salons and makes such offense a violation.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-25 - SIGNED CHAP.275 [S06343 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6343
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
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        Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- 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 theft of services from
          barbershops, salons and beauty shops
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 165.15 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. With intent to avoid payment for services rendered  by  a  barber-
     4  shop,  salon  or beauty shop, he or she avoids or attempts to avoid such
     5  payment by unjustifiable failure or refusal to pay, by  stealth,  or  by
     6  any  misrepresentation  of  fact  which  he or she knowns to be false. A
     7  person who fails or refuses to pay for such services is presumed to have
     8  intended to avoid payment therefor.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09327-01-7