Bill Text: NY A02187 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds the act of pretending to be an employee of a public utility company or corporation for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon a premises to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree, a class E felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A02187 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02187-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2187
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Codes
        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal impersonation of
          an employee of a public utility company or corporation
          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 190.26 of the penal law, as added
     2  by chapter 2 of the laws of 1998, is amended and a new subdivision 4  is
     3  added to read as follows:
     4    3.  Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person author-
     5  ized to issue a prescription for any drug or any  instrument  or  device
     6  used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
     7  required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral prescription which
     8  is  required  to  be reduced to writing pursuant to section thirty-three
     9  hundred thirty-two of the public health law[.]; or
    10    4. Pretends to be an employee of a public utility company or a  public
    11  utility  corporation as defined in section two of the public service law
    12  for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon
    13  a premises.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03971-01-9