Bill Text: NY A04761 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to theft of services from barbershops, salons or beauty salons and makes such offense a violation.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-15 - enacting clause stricken [A04761 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04761-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         4761--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. KEARNS, HARRIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          GIGLIO, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to theft of services from
          barbershops, salons and beauty shops
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The closing paragraph of section 165.15 of the penal law,
     2  as amended by chapter 491 of the laws of 1992,  is  amended  and  a  new
     3  subdivision 12 is added to read as follows:
     4    12.  With  intent  to avoid payment for services rendered by a barber-
     5  shop, salon or beauty shop, he or she avoids or attempts to  avoid  such
     6  payment  by  unjustifiable  failure or refusal to pay, by stealth, or by
     7  any misrepresentation of fact which he or she knows to be false.
     8    Theft of services is a class A misdemeanor,  provided,  however,  that
     9  theft  of cable television service as defined by the provisions of para-
    10  graphs (a), (c) and (d) of subdivision four of this section, and  having
    11  a  value  not  in  excess of one hundred dollars by a person who has not
    12  been previously convicted of theft of services under subdivision four of
    13  this section is a violation, that theft of  services  under  subdivision
    14  nine  of  this section by a person who has not been previously convicted
    15  of theft of services  under  subdivision  nine  of  this  section  is  a
    16  violation,  that  theft  of  services  under  subdivision twelve of this
    17  section by a person who has not previously been convicted  of  theft  of
    18  services  under  subdivision  twelve of this section is a violation, and
    19  provided further, however, that  theft  of  services  of  any  telephone
    20  service  under  paragraph (a) or (b) of subdivision five of this section
    21  having a value in excess of one thousand dollars or by a person who  has
    22  been  previously  convicted within five years of theft of services under
    23  paragraph (a) of subdivision five of this section is a class E felony.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    25  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09327-03-7
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