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