Bill Text: NY S04696 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the crime of unlawful defilement of a water supply; provides that a person is guilty of such crime when he introduces, places, or causes to be introduced or placed a defiling agent into a water supply; makes definitions; establishes such crime as a class B felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04696-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4696
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen. LEIBELL -- 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 unlawful defilement  of  a
         water supply
         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 270.08  to
    2  read as follows:
    3  S 270.08 UNLAWFUL DEFILEMENT OF A WATER SUPPLY.
    4    1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
    5    (A)  "WATER SUPPLY" MEANS ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE TRANSMISSION FACILITY,
    6  TREATMENT FACILITY, SOURCE OF SUPPLY FACILITY, WELL OR RESERVOIR,  WHICH
    7  PROVIDES  POTABLE  WATER  FOR RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND/OR
    8  FIRE SERVICE NEEDS.
    9    (B) "DEFILING AGENT" MEANS ANY  CHEMICAL,  BIOLOGICAL  OR  RADIOACTIVE
   10  AGENT  OR  SUBSTANCE, WHICH IS CAPABLE, WHEN INTRODUCED OR PLACED INTO A
   11  WATER SUPPLY, OF CAUSING THE SICKNESS, PHYSICAL INJURY,  SEVERE  DISFIG-
   12  UREMENT,  OR DEATH OF A HUMAN BEING, OR CAUSING IRREPARABLE HARM TO SUCH
   13  WATER SUPPLY, OR CAUSING A DISTURBANCE TO THE PUBLIC PEACE.  A  DEFILING
   14  AGENT SHALL NOT INCLUDE A SUBSTANCE WHICH IS INTRODUCED OR PLACED INTO A
   15  WATER SUPPLY BY ANY MUNICIPAL OR STATE ENTITY, OR WHICH IS INTRODUCED OR
   16  PLACED INTO A WATER SUPPLY BY ANY AGRICULTURAL OR INDUSTRIAL ENTITY AS A
   17  RESULT OF ITS ORDINARY LAWFUL OPERATIONS.
   18    2. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL DEFILEMENT OF A WATER SUPPLY WHEN HE
   19  INTENTIONALLY  INTRODUCES, PLACES, OR CAUSES TO BE INTRODUCED OR PLACED,
   20  INTO A WATER SUPPLY, A DEFILING AGENT WITH THE INTENT TO CAUSE THE SICK-
   21  NESS, PHYSICAL INJURY, SEVERE DISFIGUREMENT OR DEATH  OF  ANOTHER  HUMAN
   22  BEING,  OR WITH THE RECKLESS DISREGARD OF CAUSING THE SICKNESS, PHYSICAL
   23  INJURY, SEVERE DISFIGUREMENT, OR DEATH OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING,  OR  WITH
   24  THE INTENT TO CAUSE IRREPARABLE HARM TO SUCH WATER SUPPLY, OR TO DISTURB
   25  THE PUBLIC PEACE.
   26    UNLAWFUL DEFILEMENT OF A WATER SUPPLY SHALL BE A CLASS B FELONY.
   27    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   28  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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