Bill Text: NY A00067 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Expands the crime of making graffiti.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - print number 67a [A00067 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00067-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          67--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMANOWITZ, MILLER -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the  Committee  on  Codes  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to expanding the crime of
          making graffiti
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 145.60 of the penal law, as added by chapter 458 of
     2  the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 145.60 Making graffiti in the second degree.
     4    [1.]  For purposes of this section and section 145.62 of this article,
     5  the term "graffiti" shall mean the etching, painting, covering,  drawing
     6  upon or otherwise placing of a mark upon public or private property with
     7  intent  to  damage such property.  A person is guilty of making graffiti
     8  in the second degree when he or she:
     9    [2. No person shall make] makes graffiti of any type on any  building,
    10  public  or  private, or any other property real or personal owned by any
    11  person, firm or corporation or any  public  agency  or  instrumentality,
    12  without  the express permission of the owner or operator of said proper-
    13  ty.
    14    Making graffiti in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
    15    § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 145.62  to  read
    16  as follows:
    17  § 145.62 Making graffiti in the first degree.
    18    A  person  is  guilty of making graffiti in the first degree when such
    19  person damages property of another person in  the  manner  described  in
    20  section 145.60 of this article and he or she:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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