Assembly Bill A4933

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to desecration of property commemorating a historical figure

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A4933 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §145.75, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8799
2019-2020: A4976
2021-2022: A4020
2023-2024: A6532

2025-A4933 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes desecration of property commemorating a historical figure a class C felony.

2025-A4933 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4933
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to desecration of property
   commemorating a historical figure
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 145.75 to
 read as follows:
 § 145.75 DESECRATION OF PROPERTY COMMEMORATING A HISTORICAL FIGURE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF DESECRATION OF PROPERTY COMMEMORATING A  HISTOR-
 ICAL  FIGURE  WHEN WITH INTENT TO DAMAGE PROPERTY OF ANOTHER PERSON, AND
 HAVING NO RIGHT TO DO SO NOR ANY REASONABLE GROUND TO BELIEVE THAT  THEY
 HAVE SUCH RIGHT, SUCH PERSON:
   (A)  DAMAGES  ANY REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
 TO ANY COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT, MARKER OR STREET SIGN,  RELATING  TO  ANY
 PERSON, LIVING OR DEAD, WHO HAS HISTORICAL OR CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE; OR
   (B)  WITH  INTENT  TO  STEAL  PERSONAL  PROPERTY,  SUCH  PERSON STEALS
 PERSONAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY COMMEMORATIVE  MONU-
 MENT, MARKER OR STREET SIGN, RELATING TO ANY PERSON, LIVING OR DEAD, WHO
 HAS HISTORICAL OR CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE.
   DESECRATION OF PROPERTY COMMEMORATING A HISTORICAL FIGURE IS A CLASS C
 FELONY.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD07256-01-5

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