STATE OF NEW YORK
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5659--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, SANTABARBARA, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. GALEF, RA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crimes of
criminal trespass on school grounds or children's camp and criminal
trespass on a school bus in the first and second degrees
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 140.09 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 140.09 Criminal trespass on school grounds or children's camp.
4 A person is guilty of criminal trespass on school grounds or chil-
5 dren's camp when he or she commits the crime of criminal trespass in the
6 first degree pursuant to section 140.17 of this article and such build-
7 ing or grounds is utilized as an elementary or secondary school or a
8 children's overnight camp or a summer day camp as defined in section
9 thirteen hundred ninety-two of the public health law in violation of
10 conspicuously posted rules or regulations governing entry and use there-
11 of.
12 Criminal trespass on school grounds or children's camp is a class C
13 felony.
14 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 140.18 to read
15 as follows:
16 § 140.18 Criminal trespass on a school bus in the second degree.
17 1. A person is guilty of criminal trespass on a school bus in the
18 second degree when he or she:
19 (a) Willfully demolishes, destroys, defaces, injures, burns, or
20 damages any public school bus.
21 (b) Enters a public school bus while the door is open to load or
22 unload students, while at a railroad grade crossing, or after being
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 forbidden from doing so by the authorized school bus driver in charge of
2 the bus, or upon demand of a principal of a school to which the bus is
3 assigned or other duly authorized school system official.
4 (c) As an occupant of a public school bus, refuses to leave the bus on
5 demand of the authorized school bus driver in charge of the bus, or upon
6 demand of a principal of a school to which the bus is assigned or other
7 duly authorized school system official.
8 (d) Willfully stops, impedes, delays, or detains any public school bus
9 being operated for public school purposes.
10 2. Paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of subdivision one of this section
11 shall not apply to a child who is less than sixteen years of age or to
12 authorized school personnel who are boarding the school bus as part of
13 their job assignment.
14 Criminal trespass on a school bus in the second degree is a class A
15 misdemeanor.
16 § 3. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 140.19 to read
17 as follows:
18 § 140.19 Criminal trespass on a school bus in the first degree.
19 A person is guilty of criminal trespass on a school bus in the first
20 degree when he or she commits the crime of criminal trespass on a school
21 bus in the second degree pursuant to section 140.18 of this article and
22 when, in the course of committing such crime, he or she:
23 1. Possesses, or knows that another participant in the crime
24 possesses, an explosive or a deadly weapon; or
25 2. Possesses a firearm, rifle or shotgun, as those terms are defined
26 in section 265.00 of this part, and also possesses or has readily acces-
27 sible a quantity of ammunition which is capable of being discharged from
28 such firearm, rifle or shotgun; or
29 3. Knows that another participant in the crime possesses a firearm,
30 rifle or shotgun under circumstances described in subdivision two of
31 this section.
32 Criminal trespass on a school bus in the first degree is a class C
33 felony.
34 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
35 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
