Increases from $250 to $500, the threshold dollar amount of property damage needed to be committed for the crimes of criminal mischief in the fourth and third degrees.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4181
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 5, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- 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 increasing the threshold
dollar amount of property damage needed to be committed for the crimes
of criminal mischief in the fourth and third degrees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 145.00 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 69 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Recklessly damages property of another person in an amount exceed-
5 ing [two] five hundred [fifty] dollars; or
6 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 145.05 of the penal law, as amended by
7 chapter 276 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
8 2. damages property of another person in an amount exceeding [two]
9 five hundred [fifty] dollars.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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