Bill Text: NY A08919 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes the theft of a package intentionally taken from a porch, driveway, doorway or other area adjacent to the residence of another following delivery of the package to such residence by the postal service or a commercial carrier a felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A08919 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08919-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8919

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 30, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  making  the  theft  of  a
          package  intentionally  taken from a porch, driveway, doorway or other
          area adjacent to the residence of another following  delivery  of  the
          package to such residence by the postal service or a commercial carri-
          er a felony

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 155.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
     3    5-a.  The property consists of a package, regardless of its nature and
     4  value of such   package, which is  intentionally  taken  from  a  porch,
     5  driveway,  doorway  or  other  area adjacent to the residence of another
     6  following delivery of the  package  to  such  residence  by  the  postal
     7  service or a commercial carrier; or
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     9  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13532-02-9