Bill Text: NY A03101 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the crime of aggravated harassment of a public service answering point; makes such crime a class E felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to codes [A03101 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A03101-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3101
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 24, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. TEDISCO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  creating  the  crime  of
         aggravated harassment of a public service answering point
         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 240.33  to
    2  read as follows:
    3  S 240.33 AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A PUBLIC SERVICE ANSWERING POINT.
    4    1.  A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A PUBLIC SERVICE
    5  ANSWERING POINT WHEN HE OR SHE INTENTIONALLY  MAKES  A  TELEPHONE  CALL,
    6  WHETHER  OR  NOT  A  CONVERSATION  ENSUES, WITH NO PURPOSE OF LEGITIMATE
    7  COMMUNICATION.
    8    2. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION, "PUBLIC SERVICE  ANSWERING  POINT"
    9  MEANS  A  COMMUNICATION  FACILITY  WHICH  FIRST  RECEIVES 911 CALLS FROM
   10  PERSONS WITHIN A 911 SERVICE AREA AND WHICH MAY, AS APPROPRIATE, DIRECT-
   11  LY DISPATCH THE SERVICES OF A PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCY OR EXTEND,  TRANSFER,
   12  RELAY  OR  OTHERWISE  ROUTE  911  CALLS TO THE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC SAFETY
   13  AGENCY.
   14    AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A PUBLIC SERVICE ANSWERING POINT IS A CLASS E
   15  FELONY.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   17  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.
                                                                  LBD02040-01-1