Adds a person having been previously convicted of petit larceny two times within any three month period or three times within any twelve month period to the definition of grand larceny in the fourth degree.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5648
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. ASHBY, BORRELLO, MATTERA, OBERACKER, ROLISON, STEC,
TEDISCO, WEBER -- 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 grand larceny in the
fourth degree
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 section 155.30 of the penal law,
2 as added by section 1 of part FF of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, is
3 amended 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. The person has been previously convicted of petit larceny as
15 defined in section 155.25 of this article two times within any three
16 month period or three times within any twelve-month period.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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