Establishes the class E felony of criminal use of public records for the intentional use of any public record in the course of or in furtherance of the commission of a crime.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5498
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY, NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal use of public
records
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 240.80
2 and 240.81 to read as follows:
3 § 240.80 Criminal use of public records; definition.
4 For the purposes of section 240.81 of this article, "record" shall
5 have the same meaning ascribed to such term by subdivision four of
6 section eighty-six of the public officers law.
7 § 240.81 Criminal use of public records.
8 A person is guilty of criminal use of public records when such person,
9 with the intent to use such record in the commission of a crime, inten-
10 tionally obtains any record through the process provided pursuant to the
11 public officers law and attempts to use or uses such record in the
12 course of, in furtherance of, or as an instrumentality in the commission
13 of a crime.
14 Criminal use of public records is a class E felony.
15 § 2. 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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