STATE OF NEW YORK
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3112
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the age of a
youthful offender
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 720.10 of the criminal procedure
2 law, as amended by chapter 411 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. "Youth" means a person charged with a crime alleged to have been
5 committed when he or she was at least sixteen years old and less than
6 [nineteen] twenty-one years old or a person charged with being a juve-
7 nile offender as defined in subdivision forty-two of section 1.20 of
8 this chapter.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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