Assembly Bill A8254

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Makes intentional damage to an authorized emergency vehicle a crime of criminal mischief in the third degree

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    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2015-A8254 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S802
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง145.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10204, S2119
2011-2012: A5197, S2209
2013-2014: A5846, S4390
2017-2018: A9771, S227

2015-A8254 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes intentional damage to an authorized emergency vehicle a crime of criminal mischief in the third degree.

2015-A8254 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8254

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 15, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to intentional damage to an
  authorized emergency vehicle

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

  Section  1. Section 145.05 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 276
of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
S 145.05 Criminal mischief in the third degree.
  A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the third 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 or she has such right,
he or she:
  1. damages the motor vehicle of another person, by breaking into  such
vehicle  when  it  is  locked  with the intent of stealing property, and
within the previous ten year period, has been convicted  three  or  more
times,  in separate criminal transactions for which sentence was imposed
on separate occasions, of criminal mischief  in  the  fourth  degree  as
defined  in  section  145.00,  criminal  mischief in the third degree as
defined in this section, criminal  mischief  in  the  second  degree  as
defined  in  section 145.10, or criminal mischief in the first degree as
defined in section 145.12 of this article; or
  2. damages property of another  person  in  an  amount  exceeding  two
hundred fifty dollars; OR
  3.  DAMAGES  AN AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE
HUNDRED ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
  Criminal mischief in the third degree is a class E felony.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01484-01-5

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