STATE OF NEW YORK
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6928
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 17, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
making lewd or threatening graffiti
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 a new section 145.61 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 145.61 Making lewd or threatening graffiti.
4 No person shall make graffiti, as defined by section 145.60 of this
5 article, that is lewd or threatening on any building, public or private,
6 or any other property real or personal owned by any person, firm or
7 corporation or any public agency or instrumentality, without the express
8 permission of the owner or operator of said property.
9 Making lewd or threatening graffiti is a class E felony.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
11 ing 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.
LBD10071-01-9
