Bill Text: NY S00206 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           206
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
        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  files or conspires to file, in any public record or private record which
     5  is  generally  available  to  the  public, any false lien or encumbrance
     6  against the real or personal property of a local  or  state  officer  as
     7  defined  in  section  two  of the public officers law, on account of the
     8  performance of official duties of that  individual,  knowing  or  having
     9  reason  to  know  that such lien or encumbrance is false or contains any
    10  materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation,
    11  shall be guilty of a class E felony punishable by a fine of ten thousand
    12  dollars per incidence or up to one year in prison, or by both such  fine
    13  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.
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