Bill Text: NY A06584 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the crime of falsely accusing someone of a crime.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to codes [A06584 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A06584-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6584 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 10, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of falsely accusing someone of a crime 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 S 240.49 FALSELY ACCUSING SOMEONE OF A CRIME. 4 A PERSON IS GUILTY OF FALSELY ACCUSING SOMEONE OF A CRIME WHEN HE OR 5 SHE SIGNS AND SUBMITS AN ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENT WITH A MEMBER OF LAW 6 ENFORCEMENT AND DOES SO KNOWING THE CONTENT OF THE ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENT 7 IS FALSE. 8 FALSELY ACCUSING SOMEONE OF A CRIME IS A CLASS E FELONY. 9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 10 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. LBD05453-01-3