Bill Text: NY S05918 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the crime of unlawful purchase, sale or possession of a license plate hiding device.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO RULES [S05918 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S05918-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5918 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E November 4, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADAMS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of unlawful purchase, sale or possession of a license plate hiding device 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 165.75 to 2 read as follows: 3 S 165.75 UNLAWFUL PURCHASE, SALE OR POSSESSION OF A LICENSE PLATE HIDING 4 DEVICE. 5 A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL PURCHASE, SALE OR POSSESSION OF A 6 LICENSE PLATE HIDING DEVICE WHEN HE OR SHE KNOWINGLY PURCHASES, SELLS OR 7 POSSESSES ANY DEVICE OR APPARATUS WITH THE INTENT TO USE SUCH DEVICE OR 8 APPARATUS TO HIDE THE APPEARANCE OF A LICENSE PLATE FROM AN E-ZPASS OR 9 ANY OTHER TOLL BOOTH CAMERA. 10 UNLAWFUL PURCHASE, SALE OR POSSESSION OF A LICENSE PLATE HIDING DEVICE 11 IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR. 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. LBD13645-01-1