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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 5, 2012
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jeffries) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal impersonation of
  a disabled veteran vendor

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 190.25 of the penal law, the section heading, open-
ing paragraph, subdivision 3 and closing paragraph as amended by chapter
27  of  the  laws  of 1980, subdivision 4 as added by chapter 304 of the
laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
S 190.25 Criminal impersonation in the second degree.
  A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the second degree when
he OR SHE:
  1. Impersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with
intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another; or
  2. Pretends to be a representative of some person or organization  and
does  an  act in such pretended capacity with intent to obtain a benefit
or to injure or defraud another; or
  3. (a) Pretends to be a public servant, or wears or  displays  without
authority  any  uniform,  badge,  insignia or facsimile thereof by which
such public servant is lawfully distinguished, or falsely  expresses  by
his  OR  HER  words  or actions that he OR SHE is a public servant or is
acting with approval or authority of a public agency or department;  and
(b)  so  acts  with intent to induce another to submit to such pretended
official authority, to solicit funds or to otherwise  cause  another  to
act in reliance upon that pretense; OR
  4.  Impersonates another by communication by internet website or elec-
tronic means with intent to obtain a benefit or injure or defraud anoth-
er, or by such communication pretends to be a public servant in order to
induce another to submit to such authority or act in  reliance  on  such
pretense[.]; OR
  5.  PRETENDS  TO BE A DISABLED VETERAN VENDOR, OR CARRIES OR POSSESSES
WITHOUT AUTHORITY OF THE OFFICIAL DESIGNATED TO ISSUE SPECIALIZED  VEND-
ING LICENSES UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION THIRTY-FIVE-A OF THE GENER-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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AL  BUSINESS  LAW  ANY  FORM  OF INSIGNIA OR IDENTIFICATION OR FACSIMILE
THEREOF, OR FALSELY EXPRESSES BY HIS OR HER WORDS OR ACTIONS THAT HE  OR
SHE IS A DISABLED VETERAN VENDOR.
  Criminal impersonation in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.