Provides that when property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the person of another and the victim is 65 years of age or older or such property is obtained by extortion and the victim is 65 years of age or older, such crimes shall be grand larceny in the third degree and subject to a class D felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4130
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 grand larceny in the third
degree of a person who is 65 years of age or older
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 155.35 of the penal law, as added
2 by section 5 of part O of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 3. when such person commits deed theft of one commercial real proper-
5 ty, regardless of the value[.], or
6 § 2. Section 155.35 of the penal law, as amended by section 5 of part
7 O of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is amended by adding two new subdi-
8 visions 4 and 5 to read as follows:
9 4. the property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the
10 person of another and the victim is sixty-five years of age or older, or
11 5. the property, regardless of its nature and value, is obtained by
12 extortion as defined in subparagraphs (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) and
13 (ix) of paragraph (e) of subdivision two of section 155.05 of this chap-
14 ter and the victim is sixty-five years of age or older.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
16 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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