STATE OF NEW YORK
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4163
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. KEARNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to theft of services from
barbershops, salons and beauty shops
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 165.15 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 12 to read as follows:
3 12. With intent to avoid payment for services rendered by a barber-
4 shop, salon or beauty shop, he or she avoids or attempts to avoid such
5 payment by unjustifiable failure or refusal to pay, by stealth, or by
6 any misrepresentation of fact which he or she knowns to be false. A
7 person who fails or refuses to pay for such services is presumed to have
8 intended to avoid payment therefor.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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