Bill Text: NY S06957 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6957 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to organized retail theft using an emergency exit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-18 - referred to codes [S06957 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06957-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6957--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 16, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ZELDIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
         committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the general business law and the penal law, in  relation
         to organized retail theft using an emergency exit
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
    2  393-e to read as follows:
    3    S 393-E. ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT USING AN EMERGENCY EXIT. A  PERSON  IS
    4  GUILTY  OF ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT USING AN EMERGENCY EXIT WHEN THE PROP-
    5  ERTY IS STOLEN FROM A RETAIL MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT AND, TO FACILITATE
    6  THE THEFT, THE PERSON LEAVES THE RETAIL  MERCANTILE  ESTABLISHMENT  WITH
    7  SUCH PROPERTY BY USE OF A DESIGNATED EMERGENCY EXIT. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
    8  THIS  SECTION,  THE  TERM "RETAIL MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT" SHALL MEAN A
    9  PLACE WHERE GOODS, WARES, OR MERCHANDISE ARE OFFERED TO THE  PUBLIC  FOR
   10  SALE.
   11    ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT USING AN EMERGENCY EXIT IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   12    S 2. Section 155.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
   13  vision 12 to read as follows:
   14    12. THE PROPERTY IS STOLEN FROM A RETAIL MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT AND,
   15  TO  FACILITATE THE THEFT, THE PERSON LEAVES THE RETAIL MERCANTILE ESTAB-
   16  LISHMENT WITH SUCH PROPERTY BY USE OF A DESIGNATED EMERGENCY  EXIT.  FOR
   17  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "RETAIL MERCANTILE ESTABLISH-
   18  MENT"  SHALL MEAN A PLACE WHERE GOODS, WARES, OR MERCHANDISE ARE OFFERED
   19  TO THE PUBLIC FOR SALE.
   20    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   21  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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