Bill Text: NY A02187 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a class E felony crime of tampering with a taximeter when a person, with intent to increase the fare displayed by a taximeter to an amount above the maximum amount permitted by local law, tampers with a taximeter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to codes [A02187 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A02187-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2187
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 14, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes
       AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal tampering with a
         taximeter
         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 145.75 to
    2  read as follows:
    3  S 145.75  TAMPERING WITH A TAXIMETER.
    4    1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A "TAXIMETER" MEANS AN INSTRUMENT  OR
    5  DEVICE  THAT  AUTOMATICALLY  CALCULATES  AND  DISPLAYS  THE  CHARGE TO A
    6  PASSENGER IN A VEHICLE THAT IS LICENSED  TO  TRANSPORT  MEMBERS  OF  THE
    7  PUBLIC FOR HIRE PURSUANT TO LOCAL LAW.
    8    2.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, A "TAXIMETER ACCELERATING DEVICE"
    9  MEANS AN INSTRUMENT OR DEVICE THAT CAUSES A TAXIMETER  TO  INCREASE  THE
   10  CHARGE  DISPLAYED BY THE TAXIMETER TO AN AMOUNT ABOVE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT
   11  PERMITTED BY LOCAL LAW.
   12    3. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF TAMPERING WITH A TAXIMETER WHEN, WITH  INTENT
   13  TO  INCREASE  THE  FARE  DISPLAYED BY A TAXIMETER TO AN AMOUNT ABOVE THE
   14  MAXIMUM AMOUNT PERMITTED BY LOCAL LAW,  HE  OR  SHE  TAMPERS  WITH  SUCH
   15  TAXIMETER  OR ATTACHES OR OTHERWISE USES A TAXIMETER ACCELERATING DEVICE
   16  TO CAUSE ANY SIGNAL, IMPULSE OR DATA TO BE FED INTO  OR  TRANSMITTED  TO
   17  SUCH TAXIMETER.
   18    TAMPERING WITH A TAXIMETER IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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