STATE OF NEW YORK
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760
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PAULIN --
read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal impersonation of
a certified first responder, an emergency medical technician, an
advanced emergency medical technician, or a firefighter
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 190.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. Pretends to be a police officer, certified first responder, emer-
4 gency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, or
5 firefighter without any actual or implied authority to do so.
6 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 190.26 of the penal law, as amended by
7 chapter 434 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
8 1. Pretends to be a police officer [or a], federal law enforcement
9 officer as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law,
10 certified first responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emer-
11 gency medical technician or firefighter, or wears or displays without
12 authority, any uniform, badge or other insignia or facsimile thereof, by
13 which such police officer [or], federal law enforcement officer, certi-
14 fied first responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency
15 medical technician or firefighter is lawfully distinguished; or
16 expresses by his or her words or actions that he or she is acting with
17 the approval or authority of any police department or acting as a feder-
18 al law enforcement officer with the approval of any agency that employs
19 federal law enforcement officers as enumerated in section 2.15 of the
20 criminal procedure law; and
21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
22 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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