Bill Text: NY S06343 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to theft of services from barbershops, salons or beauty salons and makes such offense a violation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-25 - SIGNED CHAP.275 [S06343 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06343-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6343--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to theft of services from barbershops, salons and beauty shops The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 165.15 of the penal law, 2 as amended by chapter 491 of the laws of 1992, is amended and a new 3 subdivision 12 is added to read as follows: 4 12. With intent to avoid payment for services rendered by a barber- 5 shop, salon or beauty shop, he or she avoids or attempts to avoid such 6 payment by unjustifiable failure or refusal to pay, by stealth, or by 7 any misrepresentation of fact which he or she knows to be false. 8 Theft of services is a class A misdemeanor, provided, however, that 9 theft of cable television service as defined by the provisions of para- 10 graphs (a), (c) and (d) of subdivision four of this section, and having 11 a value not in excess of one hundred dollars by a person who has not 12 been previously convicted of theft of services under subdivision four of 13 this section is a violation, that theft of services under subdivision 14 nine of this section by a person who has not been previously convicted 15 of theft of services under subdivision nine of this section is a 16 violation, that theft of services under subdivision twelve of this 17 section by a person who has not previously been convicted of theft of 18 services under subdivision twelve of this section is a violation, and 19 provided further, however, that theft of services of any telephone 20 service under paragraph (a) or (b) of subdivision five of this section 21 having a value in excess of one thousand dollars or by a person who has 22 been previously convicted within five years of theft of services under 23 paragraph (a) of subdivision five of this section is a class E felony. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 25 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09327-02-7
