Bill Text: NY A07643 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to theft of services; includes the intent to use toll roads without payment of the lawful charge therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-18 - print number 7643a [A07643 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07643-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7643
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 12, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. BRENNAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the theft of services
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 3 and the closing paragraph of section 165.15
    2  of the penal law, the closing paragraph as amended by chapter 491 of the
    3  laws of 1992, are amended to read as follows:
    4    3. With intent to obtain railroad, subway, bus, air, taxi or any other
    5  public transportation service, INCLUDING  USE  OF  TOLL  ROADS,  without
    6  payment of the lawful charge therefor, or to avoid payment of the lawful
    7  charge for such transportation service which has been rendered to him OR
    8  HER,  he  OR SHE obtains or attempts to obtain such service or avoids or
    9  attempts to avoid payment  therefor  by  force,  intimidation,  stealth,
   10  deception  or  mechanical  tampering,  or  by  unjustifiable  failure or
   11  refusal to pay; or
   12    Theft of services is a class A misdemeanor,  provided,  however,  that
   13  theft  of cable television service as defined by the provisions of para-
   14  graphs (a), (c) and (d) of subdivision four of this section, and  having
   15  a  value  not  in  excess of one hundred dollars by a person who has not
   16  been previously convicted of theft of services under subdivision four of
   17  this section is a violation, that theft of  services  under  subdivision
   18  nine  of  this section by a person who has not been previously convicted
   19  of theft of services  under  subdivision  nine  of  this  section  is  a
   20  violation and provided further, however, that theft of [services of] any
   21  [telephone]  service  [under paragraph (a) or (b) of subdivision five of
   22  this section] having a value in excess of one thousand dollars or  by  a
   23  person  who  has been previously convicted within five years of theft of
   24  services under paragraph (a) of subdivision five of this  section  is  a
   25  class E felony.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   27  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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