Prohibits the sale of any badge, shield, identification card or other insignia of any police department or law enforcement agency or a facsimile of such a badge or shield; imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $250 for each violation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4512
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 16, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the unlawful
sale of law enforcement identification
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 139 to read as follows:
3 § 139. Unlawful sale of law enforcement insignia. No person shall sell
4 any badge, shield, identification card or other insignia of any police
5 department or law enforcement agency of any county, city, town, village,
6 commission or authority of this state, or a facsimile of any such badge,
7 shield, identification card or insignia except as authorized by rule or
8 regulation adopted by such police department or law enforcement agency.
9 A violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a
10 civil penalty of not more than two hundred fifty dollars for each
11 violation.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09505-01-3
