STATE OF NEW YORK
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371
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. MORAHAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to designating as a class E
felony, the offense of endangering the welfare of an incompetent or
physically disabled person
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 260.25 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 381
2 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 260.25 Endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disa-
4 bled person.
5 A person is guilty of endangering the welfare of an incompetent or
6 physically disabled person when he or she knowingly acts in a manner
7 likely to be injurious to the physical, mental or moral welfare of a
8 person who is unable to care for himself or herself because of physical
9 disability, mental disease or defect.
10 Endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled
11 person is a class [A misdemeanor] E felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 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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