Bill Text: NY A00676 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elevates the severity of criminal trespass and burglary offenses committed upon the premises of a pharmacy.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A00676 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00676-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           676
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RODRIGUEZ  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  criminal  trespass  and
          burglary upon the premises of a pharmacy
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 140.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  "Pharmacy" means that area within a building at which the practice
     4  of the profession of pharmacy  is  conducted  pursuant  to  article  one
     5  hundred thirty-seven of the education law.
     6    §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 140.15 of the penal law, as amended by
     7  chapter 315 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     8    1. he or she knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling or a
     9  pharmacy; or
    10    § 3.  Subdivision 2 of section 140.25 of the penal law, as amended  by
    11  chapter 361 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
    12    2.  The building is a dwelling, or the portion of the building that is
    13  a pharmacy.
    14    § 4. The opening paragraph of section 140.30  of  the  penal  law,  as
    15  amended  by  chapter  361  of  the  laws  of 1981, is amended to read as
    16  follows:
    17    A person is guilty of burglary in the first  degree  when  he  or  she
    18  knowingly  enters or remains unlawfully in a dwelling or a pharmacy with
    19  intent to commit a crime therein, and when, in effecting entry or  while
    20  in  the  dwelling or in immediate flight therefrom, he or she or another
    21  participant in the crime:
    22    § 5.   This act shall take  effect  on  the  first  of  November  next
    23  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03961-01-7