STATE OF NEW YORK
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4530
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. BORELLI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the criminal offense of
threatening with a hypodermic instrument
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 two new sections 265.50
2 and 265.60 to read as follows:
3 § 265.50 Criminal use of a hypodermic instrument in the second degree.
4 A person is guilty of criminal use of a hypodermic instrument in the
5 second degree if he or she threatens the use of a hypodermic syringe
6 during the commission of any misdemeanor.
7 Criminal use of a hypodermic instrument in the second degree is a
8 class E felony.
9 § 265.60 Criminal use of a hypodermic instrument in the first degree.
10 A person is guilty of criminal use of a hypodermic instrument in the
11 first degree if he or she threatens the use of a hypodermic syringe
12 during the commission of any felony.
13 Criminal use of a hypodermic instrument in the first degree is a class
14 C felony. The court shall impose a separate sentence to run consecutive-
15 ly in addition to any sentence imposed on the underlying felony.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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