Bill Text: NY S01578 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the class E felony of criminal use of public records for the intentional use of any public record in the course of or in furtherance of the commission of a crime.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01578 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S01578-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1578 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 3, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GOLDEN, O. JOHNSON, MORAHAN, SEWARD, VOLKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal use of public records 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 two new sections 240.75 2 and 240.77 to read as follows: 3 S 240.75 CRIMINAL USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS; DEFINITION. 4 FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTION 240.77 OF THIS ARTICLE, "RECORD" SHALL 5 HAVE THE SAME MEANING ASCRIBED TO SUCH TERM BY SUBDIVISION FOUR OF 6 SECTION EIGHTY-SIX OF THE PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW. 7 S 240.77 CRIMINAL USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS. 8 A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS WHEN HE OR SHE 9 INTENTIONALLY OBTAINS ANY RECORD, WITH THE INTENT TO USE SUCH RECORD IN 10 THE COMMISSION OF A CRIME, THROUGH THE PROCESS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THE 11 PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW, AND ATTEMPTS TO USE OR USES SUCH RECORD IN THE 12 COURSE OF, IN FURTHERANCE OF, OR AS AN INSTRUMENTALITY IN THE COMMISSION 13 OF A CRIME. 14 CRIMINAL USE OF PUBLIC RECORDS IS A CLASS E FELONY. 15 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 16 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. LBD06195-01-9