Provides that when property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the person of another and the victim is 65 years of age or older or such property is obtained by extortion and the victim is 65 years of age or older, such crimes shall be grand larceny in the third degree and subject to a class D felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9696
IN ASSEMBLY
March 28, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to grand larceny in the third
degree of a person who is 65 years of age or older
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 155.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 464
2 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 155.35 Grand larceny in the third degree.
4 A person is guilty of grand larceny in the third degree when he or she
5 steals property and:
6 1. when the value of the property exceeds three thousand dollars[,
7 or];
8 2. the property is an automated teller machine or the contents of an
9 automated teller machine[.];
10 3. the property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the
11 person of another and the victim is 65 years of age or older; or
12 4. the property, regardless of its nature and value, is obtained by
13 extortion and the victim is 65 years of age or older.
14 Grand larceny in the third degree is a class D felony.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
16 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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