STATE OF NEW YORK
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5480
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, ZEBROWSKI, COOK, PERRY, AUBRY -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to changing the juve-
nile delinquent status age from sixteen to seventeen
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 301.2 of the family court act, as
2 added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. "Juvenile delinquent" means a person over seven and less than
4 [sixteen] seventeen years of age, who, having committed an act that
5 would constitute a crime if committed by an adult, (a) is not criminally
6 responsible for such conduct by reason of infancy, or (b) is the defend-
7 ant in an action ordered removed from a criminal court to the family
8 court pursuant to article seven hundred twenty-five of the criminal
9 procedure law.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day next succeeding
11 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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