Bill Text: NY A08196 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of public lewdness in the first degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-23 - signed chap.186 [A08196 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08196-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8196
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    October 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. FAHY, McDONALD, LENTOL -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  public  lewdness  in  the
         first degree
         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 245.03  to
    2  read as follows:
    3  S 245.03 PUBLIC LEWDNESS IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
    4    A PERSON IS GUILTY OF PUBLIC LEWDNESS IN THE FIRST DEGREE WHEN:
    5    1.  BEING  NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AND INTENDING TO BE OBSERVED
    6  BY A PERSON LESS THAN SIXTEEN YEARS OF  AGE  IN  A  PLACE  DESCRIBED  IN
    7  SUBDIVISION  (A)  OR  (B)  OF  SECTION 245.00 OF THIS ARTICLE, HE OR SHE
    8  INTENTIONALLY EXPOSES THE PRIVATE OR INTIMATE PARTS OF HIS OR  HER  BODY
    9  IN  A LEWD MANNER FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALARMING OR SERIOUSLY ANNOYING SUCH
   10  PERSON, AND HE OR SHE IS THEREBY OBSERVED BY SUCH PERSON IN SUCH  PLACE;
   11  OR
   12    2.  HE  OR  SHE  COMMITS  THE  CRIME OF PUBLIC LEWDNESS, AS DEFINED IN
   13  SECTION 245.00 OF THIS ARTICLE, AND WITHIN THE PRECEDING YEAR  HAS  BEEN
   14  CONVICTED OF AN OFFENSE DEFINED IN SUCH SECTION 245.00 OR THIS SECTION.
   15    PUBLIC LEWDNESS IN THE FIRST DEGREE IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   17  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.
                                                                  LBD11877-02-3