Bill Text: NY A06986 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a parent or legal guardian of a person less than eighteen years of age, convicted of making graffiti or possession of graffiti instruments and sentenced to community service, to be present during such person's performance of community service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to codes [A06986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A06986-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6986
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 18, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. SALADINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the imposition of communi-
         ty service for the crime of making graffiti and possession of graffiti
         instruments
         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  60.31  to
    2  read as follows:
    3  S 60.31 AUTHORIZED DISPOSITION, MAKING GRAFFITI AND POSSESSION OF GRAFF-
    4            ITI INSTRUMENTS.
    5    WHEN  A  PERSON  YOUNGER  THAN  EIGHTEEN  YEARS OF AGE IS CONVICTED OF
    6  MAKING GRAFFITI PURSUANT TO SECTION 145.60, OR  POSSESSION  OF  GRAFFITI
    7  INSTRUMENTS,  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION 145.65, AND THE SENTENCE IMPOSED FOR
    8  SUCH CONVICTION INCLUDES COMMUNITY SERVICE OR SERVICES  FOR  THE  PUBLIC
    9  GOOD,  SUCH  SENTENCE  SHALL  REQUIRE THAT A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF
   10  SUCH PERSON BE PRESENT AND IN ATTENDANCE WHILE SUCH PERSON PERFORMS SUCH
   11  COMMUNITY SERVICE.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   13  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.
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