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                                   1753
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, BARCLAY, KOLB -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
   of A. FINCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of endangering
   the welfare of a child
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 260.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 447
 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
 § 260.10 Endangering the welfare of a child.
   A person is guilty of endangering the welfare of a child when:
   1. He or she knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to  the
 physical,  mental  or moral welfare of a child less than seventeen years
 old or directs or authorizes such  child  to  engage  in  an  occupation
 involving a substantial risk of danger to his or her life or health; or
   2.  Being  a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the
 care or custody of a child less than eighteen years old, he or she fails
 or refuses to exercise reasonable diligence in the control of such child
 to prevent him or her from becoming  an  "abused  child,"  a  "neglected
 child," a "juvenile delinquent" or a "person in need of supervision," as
 those  terms  are defined in articles ten, three and seven of the family
 court act[.]; OR
   3.  BEING A PARENT, GUARDIAN OR OTHER PERSON LEGALLY CHARGED WITH  THE
 CARE OR CUSTODY OF A CHILD LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD, HE OR SHE KNOW-
 INGLY  ALLOWS  ANY  PERSON WHO IS A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER, PURSUANT TO
 ARTICLE SIX-C OF THE CORRECTION LAW, TO RESIDE WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD WITH
 SUCH CHILD.
   4. A person is not guilty of the provisions of this section when he or
 she engages in the conduct  described  in  subdivision  one  of  section
 260.00  of this article: (a) with the intent to wholly abandon the child
 by relinquishing responsibility for and right to the care and custody of
 such child; (b) with the intent that the child  be  safe  from  physical
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 injury  and  cared  for  in an appropriate manner; (c) the child is left
 with an appropriate person, or in a suitable location and the person who
 leaves the child promptly notifies an appropriate person of the  child's
 location; and (d) the child is not more than thirty days old.
   Endangering the welfare of a child is a class A misdemeanor.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 become a law.