STATE OF NEW YORK
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5306
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- 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 adding by means of comput-
er network to the crime of aggravated harassment in the second degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 240.30 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 510 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Either (a) communicates with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by
5 telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or delivering
6 any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause
7 annoyance or alarm; or
8 (b) causes a communication to be initiated by mechanical or electronic
9 means or computer network, as defined in subdivision six of section
10 156.00 of this chapter, or otherwise with a person, anonymously or
11 otherwise, by telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or
12 delivering any other form of written communication, in a manner likely
13 to cause annoyance or alarm; or
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
15 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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