Relates to vandalism of vehicles owned by law enforcement personnel or law enforcement agencies that have identifying markings including police insignias on the vehicle or a police parking placard placed on or inside the vehicle.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
6094
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2015
___________
Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to vandalism of vehicles
owned by law enforcement personnel or law enforcement agencies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 145.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 961
2 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 145.10 Criminal mischief in the second degree.
4 A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the second degree when with
5 intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to do
6 so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such right,
7 he or she:
8 1. damages a vehicle owned by law enforcement personnel or a law
9 enforcement agency that is marked by police insignias or a police park-
10 ing placard, placed on or inside the vehicle; or
11 2. damages property of another person in an amount exceeding one thou-
12 sand five hundred dollars.
13 Criminal mischief in the second degree is a class D felony.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08348-02-5
