STATE OF NEW YORK
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7531
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 23, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to definitions of criminal
enterprise and pattern of criminal activity
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 and paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section
2 460.10 of the penal law, as added by chapter 516 of the laws of 1986,
3 are amended to read as follows:
4 3. "Criminal enterprise" means a group of persons sharing a common
5 purpose of engaging in criminal conduct, associated in an ascertainable
6 structure [distinct from a pattern] of criminal activity, and with a
7 continuity of existence[, structure] and criminal purpose beyond the
8 scope of individual criminal incidents.
9 (b) are neither isolated incidents, nor so closely related and
10 connected in point of time or circumstance of commission as to consti-
11 tute a single criminal offense [or criminal transaction,] as [those
12 terms are] defined in section 40.10 of the criminal procedure law; and
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
14 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.
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