Expands the offense of aggravated harassment in the first degree to include etching, painting, drawing upon or otherwise placing or displaying emblems, logos, flags or other symbols of designated terrorist organizations on any building or other real property without express permission of the owner or operator of such building or real property.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7632
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LASHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to enacting the "SAFETY
(Stand Against Flags of Enemy Terrorists) act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "SAFETY (Stand Against Flags of Enemy Terrorists) act".
3 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 240.31 of the penal law, as added by
4 chapter 74 of the laws of 2008, is amended and a new subdivision 6 is
5 added to read as follows:
6 5. Etches, paints, draws upon or otherwise places or displays a noose,
7 commonly exhibited as a symbol of racism and intimidation, on any build-
8 ing or other real property, public or private, owned by any person, firm
9 or corporation or any public agency or instrumentality, without express
10 permission of the owner or operator of such building or real
11 property[.]; or
12 6. Etches, paints, draws upon or otherwise places or displays emblems,
13 logos, flags or other symbols of designated foreign terrorist organiza-
14 tions, as defined in 8 U.S.C. § 1189, on any building or other real
15 property, public or private, owned by any person, firm or corporation or
16 any public agency or instrumentality, without express permission of the
17 owner or operator of such building or real property.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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