Bill Text: NY A08981 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of staging a construction site accident which is a class E felony.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-7)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - print number 8981a [A08981 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08981-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8981

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
          staging a construction site accident

          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 176.85 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 176.85 Staging a construction site accident.
     4    A person is guilty of staging a construction site accident when,  with
     5  intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent insurance act, he or
     6  she  enters  a construction site and intentionally stages an accident on
     7  such site with the intent to file an insurance claim.
     8    Staging a construction site accident is a class E felony.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14136-01-4