Creates the crime of unauthorized radio transmission; prohibits knowingly making a radio transmission on radio frequencies assigned and licensed by the federal communications commission for use by AM and FM radio stations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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326--B
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. LATIMER, GALEF, BROOK-KRASNY, SPANO, PAULIN,
P. RIVERA, JAFFEE, COLTON, REILLY, BRONSON, WEPRIN, BARRON, MAISEL,
LAVINE, RODRIGUEZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, BURLING,
CLARK, CROUCH, GABRYSZAK, GIBSON, MARKEY, McDONOUGH, McENENY, McKEV-
ITT, M. MILLER, MILLMAN, MONTESANO, MURRAY, PRETLOW, RAIA, SALADINO,
SCHIMEL, THIELE, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said
committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommit-
ted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unauthorized radio trans-
missions
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 a new section 190.72 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 190.72 Unauthorized radio transmission.
4 A person is guilty of an unauthorized radio transmission when such
5 person knowingly makes or causes to be made a radio transmission in this
6 state, on a radio frequency assigned and licensed by the federal commu-
7 nications commission for use by amplitude modulation (AM) radio stations
8 between the frequencies of five hundred thirty kilohertz (kHz) to seven-
9 teen hundred kilohertz (kHz), or frequency modulation (FM) radio
10 stations between the frequencies of eighty-eight megahertz (MHz) to one
11 hundred eight megahertz (MHz), without authorization or having first
12 obtained a license from the federal communications commission or duly
13 authorized federal agency, in violation of federal law.
14 Unauthorized radio transmission is a class A misdemeanor.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 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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