Bill Text: NY S04857 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a person who has previously been subjected to two or more petit larceny convictions within 18 months immediately preceding the charge shall be guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04857 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4857

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 15, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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  allowing  prosecutors  to
          combine certain charges

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 9, 10 and 11 of section 155.30  of  the  penal
     2  law, subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2010, subdi-
     3  vision 10 as added by chapter 491 of the laws of 1992 and subdivision 11
     4  as  added  by  chapter  394  of  the laws of 2005, are amended and a new
     5  subdivision 12 is added to read as follows:
     6    9. The property consists of a scroll, religious vestment, a vessel, an
     7  item comprising a display of religious symbols which forms  a  represen-
     8  tative  expression  of  faith,  or  other miscellaneous item of property
     9  which:
    10    (a) has a value of at least one hundred dollars; and
    11    (b) is kept for or used in connection with religious  worship  in  any
    12  building,  structure or upon the curtilage of such building or structure
    13  used as a place of religious worship  by  a  religious  corporation,  as
    14  incorporated  under  the  religious  corporations  law  or the education
    15  law[.]; or
    16    10. The property consists of an access device which the person intends
    17  to use unlawfully to obtain telephone service[.]; or
    18    11. The property consists of anhydrous ammonia  or  liquified  ammonia
    19  gas  and  the  actor  intends to use, or knows another person intends to
    20  use, such anhydrous ammonia or  liquified  ammonia  gas  to  manufacture
    21  methamphetamine[.]; or
    22    12.  Such  person  has  previously been subjected to two or more petit
    23  larceny convictions as defined in section 155.25 of this article  within
    24  the  eighteen months immediately preceding the charge under this section
    25  and the aggregate value of the property exceeds one thousand dollars.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    27  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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