STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 211 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of unauthorized use of a commercial or municipal vehicle 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 165.01 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 165.01 Unauthorized use of a commercial or municipal vehicle. 4 A person is guilty of unauthorized use of a commercial or municipal 5 vehicle when, knowing that he or she does not have the consent of the 6 owner or person authorized to grant such permission, he or she takes, 7 operates, exercises control over, rides in, or otherwise uses (a) a 8 commercial vehicle that he or she is not licensed to operate; or (b) a 9 vehicle owned, leased, or otherwise in the control of a municipality or 10 public authority. 11 Unauthorized use of a commercial or municipal vehicle is a class C 12 felony. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next 14 succeeding 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. LBD01439-01-7