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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Senate Bill S3707
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) 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
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2017-S3707 (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-S3707 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3707 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the penal law, in relation to filing false liens against public officers or public employees SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1 amends section 175.35 of the penal law, as amended by Chapter 99 of the laws of 1998 to add a new subdivision 2. This new subdivision makes knowingly filing a false lien or encumbrance in a public record or private record that is generally available to the public against a public officer or public employer on account of the performance of such public officer's or employee's official duties, or with intent to harass, intimidate or otherwise attempt to affect the actions of the official or employee, knowing or having reason to know that such lien or encumbrance is false, or contains materially false fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations a class E felony. Section 2 provides that this act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become law. PURPOSE AND JUSTIFICATION : More and more frequently, public officials and employees, and particularly judges, are discovering that disgruntled citizens and
2017-S3707 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3707 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 26, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RANZENHOFER, MARCHIONE -- 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 filing false liens against public officers or public employees THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 175.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 490 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: § 175.35 Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree. A person is guilty of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree when: 1. knowing that a written instrument contains a false statement or false information, and with intent to defraud the state or any political subdivision, public authority or public benefit corporation of the state, he or she offers or presents it to a public office, public serv- ant, public authority or public benefit corporation with the knowledge or belief that it will be filed with, registered or recorded in or otherwise become a part of the records of such public office, public servant, public authority or public benefit corporation; or 2. (a) he or she commits the crime of offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree; and (b) such instrument is a financing statement the contents of which are prescribed by section 9--502 of the uniform commercial code, the collat- eral asserted to be covered in such statement is the property of a person who is a state or local officer as defined by section two of the public officers law or who otherwise is a judge or justice of the unified court system, such financing statement does not relate to an actual transaction, and he or she filed such financing statement in retaliation for the performance of official duties by such person[.]; OR 3. HE OR SHE KNOWINGLY FILES A FALSE LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE IN A PUBLIC RECORD OR PRIVATE RECORD THAT IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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