Establishes the crime of fraud during a state disaster emergency, where a person is guilty of fraud during a state disaster emergency when he or she commits any fraud during a state disaster emergency utilizing false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises involving the disaster for which such state disaster emergency was declared.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1949
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of fraud during
a state disaster emergency
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 190.90 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 190.90 Fraud during a state disaster emergency.
4 A person is guilty of fraud during a state disaster emergency when he
5 or she commits any crime defined in this article during a state disaster
6 emergency as defined in section twenty of the executive law utilizing
7 false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises involving the
8 disaster, as defined in section twenty of the executive law, for which
9 such state disaster emergency was declared.
10 Fraud during a state disaster emergency is a class D felony.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06170-01-1
