Provides that an inmate of a correctional facility shall be guilty of a felony for harassing a correctional facility employee by fraudulent use of his or her name in publishing the name or ordering products under the employee's name.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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233--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to
the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to penalizing an inmate in a
correctional facility for harassing certain employees by fraudulently
using the name of any such employee
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 240.32 of the penal law, as amended by section
2 127-p of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 § 240.32 Aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate.
5 An inmate or respondent is guilty of aggravated harassment of an
6 employee by an inmate when, with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or
7 alarm a person in a facility whom he or she knows or reasonably should
8 know to be an employee of such facility or the board of parole or the
9 office of mental health, or a probation department, bureau or unit or a
10 police officer[,]:
11 1. he or she causes or attempts to cause such employee to come into
12 contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine or feces, by throwing, tossing
13 or expelling such fluid or material[.]; or
14 2. he or she causes such employee's name to be published in any writ-
15 ing without the permission of such employee or fraudulently uses such
16 employee's name to order magazines or any other product in the name of
17 such employee.
18 For purposes of this section, "inmate" means an inmate or detainee in
19 a correctional facility, local correctional facility or a hospital, as
20 such term is defined in subdivision two of section four hundred of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 correction law. For purposes of this section, "respondent" means a juve-
2 nile in a secure facility operated and maintained by the office of chil-
3 dren and family services who is placed with or committed to the office
4 of children and family services. For purposes of this section, "facili-
5 ty" means a correctional facility or local correctional facility, hospi-
6 tal, as such term is defined in subdivision two of section four hundred
7 of the correction law, or a secure facility operated and maintained by
8 the office of children and family services.
9 Aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate 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.
