Adds the act of pretending to be an employee of a public utility company or corporation for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon a premises to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree, a class E felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1892
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. HARRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal impersonation of
an employee of a public utility company or corporation
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 190.26 of the penal law, as added
2 by chapter 2 of the laws of 1998, is amended and a new subdivision 4 is
3 added to read as follows:
4 3. Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person author-
5 ized to issue a prescription for any drug or any instrument or device
6 used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
7 required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral prescription which
8 is required to be reduced to writing pursuant to section thirty-three
9 hundred thirty-two of the public health law[.]; or
10 4. Pretends to be an employee of a public utility company or a public
11 utility corporation as defined in section two of the public service law
12 for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon
13 a premises.
14 § 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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