STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        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.
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