Assembly Bill A2960

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Raises the monetary value of damaged property that is considered criminal mischief or securities fraud

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A2960 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2191
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§145.05 & 145.10, Pen L; amd §352-c, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8195, S4688
2011-2012: A1716, S970
2013-2014: A4482, S3356
2017-2018: A3595, S4026
2019-2020: A6951, S2560
2021-2022: S3355
2023-2024: S1237
2025-2026: S870

2015-A2960 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Raises the monetary value of damaged property that is considered criminal mischief or securities fraud.

2015-A2960 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  2960

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 20, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. LENTOL, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in  relation
  to criminal mischief and securities fraud

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of  section  145.05  of  the  penal  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  276  of  the  laws  of 2003, is amended to read as
follows:
  2. damages property of another person  in  an  amount  exceeding  [two
hundred fifty] ONE THOUSAND dollars.
  S 2. Section 145.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 961 of the
laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
S 145.10 Criminal mischief in the second degree.
  A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the second degree when with
intent  to  damage property of another person, and having no right to do
so nor any reasonable ground to believe  that  he  has  such  right,  he
damages  property  of  another person in an amount exceeding [one] THREE
thousand [five hundred] dollars.
  Criminal mischief in the second degree is a class D felony.
  S 3. Subdivision 6 of section 352-c of the general  business  law,  as
added by chapter 146 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
  6.  Any  person,  partnership,  corporation, company, trust or associ-
ation, or any agent or employee thereof  who  intentionally  engages  in
fraud, deception, concealment, suppression, false pretense or fictitious
or pretended purchase or sale, or who makes any material false represen-
tation  or statement with intent to deceive or defraud, while engaged in
inducing or promoting the issuance, distribution, exchange, sale,  nego-
tiation  or  purchase  within  or  from  this state of any securities or
commodities, as defined in this article, and thereby wrongfully  obtains

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01859-01-5

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