Bill Text: NY A01514 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the crime of making a false statement to an official of a municipal agency and makes it a class A misdemeanor offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A01514 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01514-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1514 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making a false statement to an official of a municipal agency 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 240.49 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 240.49 Making a false statement to an official of a municipal govern- 4 ment agency. 5 A person is guilty of making a false statement to an official of a 6 municipal government agency when he or she, by words or action, knowing- 7 ly makes a false statement to any official of a municipal government 8 agency in the state of New York. 9 Making a false statement to an official of a municipal government 10 agency is a class A misdemeanor. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 12 ing 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. LBD05827-01-9