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                                         4181
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- 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 increasing  the  threshold
         dollar amount of property damage needed to be committed for the crimes
         of criminal mischief in the fourth and third degrees
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of  section  145.00  of  the  penal  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  69  of  the  laws  of  2008, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. Recklessly damages property of another person in an amount  exceed-
    5  ing [two] FIVE hundred [fifty] dollars; or
    6    S  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 145.05 of the penal law, as amended by
    7  chapter 276 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
    8    2. damages property of another person in  an  amount  exceeding  [two]
    9  FIVE hundred [fifty] dollars.
   10    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09747-01-5