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A11389 Summary:

BILL NO	A11389
SAME AS	SAME AS S09150
SPONSOR	Rules (Richardson)
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add §240.49, Pen L
Relates to reporting a nonemergency incident to an organization having the function of dealing with emergencies; designates such offense a class B misdemeanor.

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A11389 Actions:

BILL NO	A11389
10/22/2018	referred to codes

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A11389 Committee Votes:

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A11389 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          11389
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    October 22, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Richardson)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to reporting  a  nonemergency
          incident  to an organization having the function of dealing with emer-
          gencies
 
          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 240.49 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.49 Reporting a nonemergency incident.
     4    A person is guilty of reporting a nonemergency incident when,  knowing
     5  the  information  reported,  conveyed or circulated to be a nonemergency
     6  situation, he or she initiates or circulates a report or warning  to  an
     7  official or quasi-official agency or organization having the function of
     8  dealing  with  emergencies  involving  danger  to life or property of an
     9  alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of a  nonemergency  situation
    10  in which it is unlikely that a threat to public safety will result.
    11    Reporting a nonemergency incident is a class B misdemeanor.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16466-01-8

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