STATE OF NEW YORK
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6578
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 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:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 145.75 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 145.75 Desecration of property commemorating a historical figure.
4 A person is guilty of desecration of property commemorating a histor-
5 ical figure when with intent to damage property of another person, and
6 having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he
7 has such right, he:
8 (a) damages any real or personal property, including but not limited
9 to any commemorative monument, marker or street sign, relating to any
10 person, living or dead, who has historical or cultural significance; or
11 (b) with intent to steal personal property, he steals personal proper-
12 ty, including but not limited to any commemorative monument, marker or
13 street sign, relating to any person, living or dead, who has historical
14 or cultural significance.
15 Desecration of property commemorating a historical figure is a class C
16 felony.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
18 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.
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