Amd SS190.00, 190.26, 155.35 & 190.25, add S190.24, Pen L
Creates class E felony of false personation at a transportation facility or public place as the knowing misrepresentation of one's name, address or date of birth to another person with intent to gain access to that portion of a public place or transportation facility, admission to which requires proof of identity; includes within the class E felony of criminal impersonation in the first degree the impersonation of another person with intent to gain access to that portion of a public place or transportation facility, admission to which requires proof of identity.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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759
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. FUSCHILLO, GALLIVAN, LARKIN, MAZIARZ -- 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 false personation and
impersonation committed to gain admission to a transportation facility
or public place and impersonation of a pilot or member of an aviation
flight or ground crew; and in relation to including theft of an offi-
cial law enforcement or fire department identification under the crime
of grand larceny in the third degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading of section 190.00 of the penal law is
2 amended and two new subdivisions 8 and 9 are added to read as follows:
3 [Issuing a bad check] Other frauds; definitions of terms.
4 8. "Public place" shall have the same meaning as is ascribed to such
5 term by subdivision one of section 240.00 of this part.
6 9. "Transportation facility" shall have the same meaning as is
7 ascribed to such term by subdivision two of section 240.00 of this part.
8 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.24 to read
9 as follows:
10 § 190.24 False personation at a transportation facility or public place.
11 A person is guilty of false personation at a transportation facility
12 or public place when he or she knowingly misrepresents his or her actual
13 name, date of birth or address to another person with the intent to
14 obtain admittance into or upon that portion of a transportation facility
15 or public place, admission to which requires proof of identity.
16 False personation at a transportation facility or public place is a
17 class E felony.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. Section 190.26 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 2 of the
2 laws of 1998, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 434 of the laws of
3 2008, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 190.26 Criminal impersonation in the first degree.
5 A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the first degree when
6 he or she:
7 1. (a) Pretends to be a police officer or a federal law enforcement
8 officer as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law, or
9 wears or displays without authority, any uniform, badge or other insig-
10 nia or facsimile thereof, by which such police officer or federal law
11 enforcement officer is lawfully distinguished or expresses by his or her
12 words or actions that he or she is acting with the approval or authority
13 of any police department or acting as a federal law enforcement officer
14 with the approval of any agency that employs federal law enforcement
15 officers as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law;
16 and
17 [2.] (b) So acts with intent to induce another to submit to such
18 pretended official authority or otherwise to act in reliance upon said
19 pretense and in the course of such pretense commits or attempts to
20 commit a felony; or
21 [3.] 2. Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person
22 authorized to issue a prescription for any drug or any instrument or
23 device used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a
24 prescription is required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral
25 prescription which is required to be reduced to writing pursuant to
26 section thirty-three hundred thirty-two of the public health law[.]; or
27 3. Impersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with
28 intent to obtain admittance into or upon that portion of a transporta-
29 tion facility or public place, admission to which requires proof of
30 identity.
31 Criminal impersonation in the first degree is a class E felony.
32 § 4. Section 155.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 464 of the
33 laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
34 § 155.35 Grand larceny in the third degree.
35 A person is guilty of grand larceny in the third degree when he or she
36 steals property and:
37 1. when the value of the property exceeds three thousand dollars[,];
38 or
39 2. the property is an automated teller machine or the contents of an
40 automated teller machine; or
41 3. the property consists of an official law enforcement or fire
42 department identification issued by a federal, state or municipal law
43 enforcement agency or fire department.
44 Grand larceny in the third degree is a class D felony.
45 § 5. Section 190.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
46 vision 5 to read as follows:
47 5. When upon an aircraft or in an airport, pretends to be a pilot or a
48 member of an aviation flight or ground crew, or wears, displays or
49 possesses without authority, any uniform, badge, insignia, identifica-
50 tion or facsimile thereof by which such pilot, flight or ground crew
51 member is distinguished; or falsely expresses by his or her words or
52 actions that he or she is a pilot or flight or ground crew member, or is
53 acting with the approval or authority of any airline, airport, transpor-
54 tation authority or aviation regulatory agency.
55 § 6. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
56 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
