Provides that a person who has previously been subjected to two or more petit larceny convictions within 18 months immediately preceding the charge and the aggregate value of the property exceeds one thousand dollars, the person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4141
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
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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 allowing prosecutors to
combine certain charges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 155.30 of the penal law, as added
2 by section 1 of part FF of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, is amended
3 and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows:
4 12. The property consists of retail goods or merchandise stolen pursu-
5 ant to a common scheme or plan or a single, ongoing intent to deprive
6 another or others of the property or to appropriate the property to the
7 actor or another person and the value of the property exceeds one thou-
8 sand dollars, which value may be determined by the aggregate value of
9 all such property regardless of whether the goods or merchandise were
10 stolen from the same owner. Nothing in this subdivision shall be read to
11 limit the ability to aggregate the value of any property or the ability
12 to charge the larceny of retail goods or merchandise under another
13 applicable provision of law[.]; or
14 13. Such person has previously been subjected to two or more petit
15 larceny convictions as defined in section 155.25 of this article within
16 the eighteen months immediately preceding the charge under this section
17 and the aggregate value of the property exceeds one thousand dollars.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
19 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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