Bill Text: NY S00206 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the filing of false liens against certain public officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S00206 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S00206-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 206--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the lien law, in relation to filing of false liens against public officials The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The lien law is amended by adding a new section 66 to read 2 as follows: 3 § 66. Filing of false liens against certain public officers. Whoever 4 knowingly files or conspires to file, in any public record or private 5 record which is generally available to the public, any false lien or 6 encumbrance against the real or personal property of a local or state 7 officer as defined in section two of the public officers law, on account 8 of the performance of official duties of that individual, knowing or 9 having reason to know that such lien or encumbrance is false or contains 10 any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or represen- 11 tation, shall be guilty of a class E felony punishable by a fine of ten 12 thousand dollars per incidence or up to one year in prison, or by both 13 such fine and imprisonment. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03005-02-7
