Bill Text: NY A04523 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the crime of unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A04523 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04523-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4523

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  creating  the  crime  of
          unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device

          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 270.45  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 270.45 Unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device.
     4    A person is guilty of unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming
     5  device  when,  having no right to do so, they knowingly possess a device
     6  capable of disrupting and/or interfering  with  wireless  communications
     7  through radio noise or signals.
     8    Unlawful  possession  of a radio frequency jamming device is a class D
     9  felony.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05157-01-3