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                                 6503--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 25, 2015
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Introduced  by  M. of A. CUSICK, McDONALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
  A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Codes  --
  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
  recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to  establishing
  jurisdiction for organized retail theft crimes

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 20.40 of  the  criminal  procedure
law is amended by adding a new paragraph (n) to read as follows:
  (N)  (I)  AN  ORGANIZED  RETAIL THEFT CRIME, WHERE THE DEFENDANT KNOWS
THAT SUCH CRIME IS A PART OF A COORDINATED PLAN, SCHEME  OR  VENTURE  OF
ORGANIZED  RETAIL  THEFT CRIMES COMMITTED BY TWO OR MORE PERSONS, MAY BE
PROSECUTED IN ANY COUNTY IN WHICH SUCH DEFENDANT COMMITTED AT LEAST  ONE
SUCH ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT CRIME; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE COUNTY OF
PROSECUTION IS CONTIGUOUS TO ANOTHER COUNTY IN WHICH ONE OR MORE OF SUCH
OTHER  ORGANIZED  RETAIL THEFT CRIMES WAS COMMITTED.  MULTIPLE ORGANIZED
RETAIL THEFT CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE SAME DEFENDANT MAY BE JOINED IN ONE
INDICTMENT  IF  AUTHORIZED  AND  APPROPRIATE  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH   THE
PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  200.20 OF THIS CHAPTER, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
NOTWITHSTANDING SECTION 200.40 OF THIS CHAPTER, NO MORE THAN ONE DEFEND-
ANT MAY BE CHARGED IN THE SAME INDICTMENT OR PROSECUTED AS PART  OF  THE
SAME  TRIAL  UNDER  THIS  PARAGRAPH. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE
FIVE COUNTIES THAT COMPRISE NEW YORK CITY  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  CONTIGUOUS
WITH EACH OTHER.
  (II)  FOR  PURPOSES  OF THIS PARAGRAPH, "ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT CRIME"
SHALL MEAN THE CRIME OF LARCENY, INCLUDING BY  TRICK,  FRAUD,  EMBEZZLE-
MENT,  STEALING  OR FALSE PRETENSES, OF RETAIL MERCHANDISE IN QUANTITIES
THAT WOULD NOT NORMALLY BE PURCHASED FOR PERSONAL  USE  OR  CONSUMPTION,
FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  RESELLING, TRADING, OR OTHERWISE REENTERING SUCH
RETAIL MERCHANDISE IN COMMERCE.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 100.45 of the criminal procedure law  is
amended to read as follows:
  1.    Where  appropriate, the provisions of sections 200.20 and 200.40
AND PARAGRAPH (N) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION 20.40 OF THIS  CHAPTER,
governing  severance of counts of an indictment and severance of defend-
ants for trial purposes, and governing consolidation of indictments  for
trial  purposes, apply to informations, to prosecutor's informations and
to misdemeanor complaints.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.