Assembly Actions -
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Feb 26, 2015 |
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Senate Bill S4059
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S4059 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Penal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง270.10, Pen L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010:
S71
2011-2012: S1620
2013-2014: S659
2015-S4059 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4059 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to creating a hazard PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To add a new hazard of abandoning a dangerous drug or controlled substance to penal law 270.10 crime of creating a hazard SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Adds a new subsection 3 to penal law section 270.10 that creates the crime of abandoning a dangerous drug or controlled substance as defined by penal law article 220 or 221. Defines "abandons" as "voluntarily discard, leave behind or relinquish his or her interest in such property as described in this section." EFFECTS OF PRESENT LAW WHICH THIS BILL WOULD ALTER: Currently, there is no penalty when a drug suspect "tosses" or discards the controlled substance he or she was carrying. This bill would make that abandonment in a public place a class B misdemeanor. JUSTIFICATION:
2015-S4059 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4059 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 26, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating a hazard THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 270.10 of the penal law is amended to read as follows: S 270.10 Creating a hazard. A person is guilty of creating a hazard when: 1. Having discarded in any place where it might attract children, a container which has a compartment of more than one and one-half cubic feet capacity and a door or lid which locks or fastens automatically when closed and which cannot easily be opened from the inside, he OR SHE fails to remove the door, lid, locking or fastening device; or 2. Being the owner or otherwise having possession of property upon which an abandoned well or cesspool is located, he OR SHE fails to cover the same with suitable protective construction; OR 3. ABANDONS IN A PUBLIC PLACE ANY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR DANGEROUS DRUG AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED TWENTY OR ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "ABANDONS" SHALL MEAN TO VOLUNTARILY DISCARD, LEAVE BEHIND OR RELINQUISH HIS OR HER INTEREST IN SUCH PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION. Creating a hazard is a class B 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. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09141-01-5
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