Bill Text: NY A00326 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 326 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Creates the crime of unauthorized radio transmission; prohibits knowingly making a radio transmission on radio frequencies assigned and licensed by the federal communications commission for use by AM and FM radio stations.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-20 - substituted by s5739a [A00326 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00326-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                        326--B
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LATIMER, GALEF, BROOK-KRASNY, SPANO, PAULIN,
         P. RIVERA, JAFFEE, COLTON, REILLY, BRONSON,  WEPRIN,  BARRON,  MAISEL,
         LAVINE,  RODRIGUEZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, BURLING,
         CLARK, CROUCH, GABRYSZAK, GIBSON, MARKEY, McDONOUGH,  McENENY,  McKEV-
         ITT,  M. MILLER,  MILLMAN, MONTESANO, MURRAY, PRETLOW, RAIA, SALADINO,
         SCHIMEL, THIELE, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as
         amended  and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said
         committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommit-
         ted to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unauthorized radio trans-
         missions
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.72 to
    2  read as follows:
    3  S 190.72 UNAUTHORIZED RADIO TRANSMISSION.
    4    A PERSON IS GUILTY OF AN UNAUTHORIZED  RADIO  TRANSMISSION  WHEN  SUCH
    5  PERSON KNOWINGLY MAKES OR CAUSES TO BE MADE A RADIO TRANSMISSION IN THIS
    6  STATE,  ON A RADIO FREQUENCY ASSIGNED AND LICENSED BY THE FEDERAL COMMU-
    7  NICATIONS COMMISSION FOR USE BY AMPLITUDE MODULATION (AM) RADIO STATIONS
    8  BETWEEN THE FREQUENCIES OF FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY KILOHERTZ (KHZ) TO SEVEN-
    9  TEEN  HUNDRED  KILOHERTZ  (KHZ),  OR  FREQUENCY  MODULATION  (FM)  RADIO
   10  STATIONS  BETWEEN THE FREQUENCIES OF EIGHTY-EIGHT MEGAHERTZ (MHZ) TO ONE
   11  HUNDRED EIGHT MEGAHERTZ (MHZ), WITHOUT  AUTHORIZATION  OR  HAVING  FIRST
   12  OBTAINED  A  LICENSE  FROM THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION OR DULY
   13  AUTHORIZED FEDERAL AGENCY, IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW.
   14    UNAUTHORIZED RADIO TRANSMISSION IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   16  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00709-05-1