Bill Text: NY S01524 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes within the class D felony of forgery in the second degree, the forgery of a certificate of insurance or an insurance identification card; includes within the class C felony of forgery in the first degree, the forgery of 10 or more written instruments.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-04-11 - referred to codes [S01524 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01524-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1524
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 13, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sens. KLEIN, BRESLIN, CARLUCCI, GOLDEN, MARTINS, RANZEN-
         HOFER, SAMPSON, SAVINO, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including the forgery of a
         certificate of insurance or an insurance  identification  card  within
         the  offense of forgery in the second degree and the forgery of ten or
         more instruments with the offense of forgery in the first degree
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 170.10 of the penal law is amended
    2  and a new subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
    3    5. A prescription of a duly licensed physician or other person author-
    4  ized  to issue the same for any drug or any instrument or device used in
    5  the taking or  administering  of  drugs  for  which  a  prescription  is
    6  required by law[.]; OR
    7    6.  A CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE OR AN INSURANCE IDENTIFICATION CARD, AS
    8  DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
    9    S 2. Section 170.15 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
   10  S 170.15 Forgery in the first degree.
   11    A person is guilty of forgery in the first degree when, with intent to
   12  defraud, deceive or injure another, he OR SHE falsely  makes,  completes
   13  or alters [a]:
   14    1. TEN OR MORE WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS; OR
   15    2. A written instrument which is or purports to be, or which is calcu-
   16  lated to become or to represent if completed:
   17    [1.]  (A) Part of an issue of money, stamps, securities or other valu-
   18  able instruments issued by a government or governmental instrumentality;
   19  or
   20    [2.] (B) Part of an issue of stock, bonds or other instruments repres-
   21  enting interests in or claims against a corporate or other  organization
   22  or its property.
   23    Forgery in the first degree is a class C felony.
   24    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   25  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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