Includes within the class D felony of forgery in the second degree, the forgery of a certificate of insurance or an insurance identification card; includes within the class C felony of forgery in the first degree, the forgery of 10 or more written instruments.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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578
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. KLEIN, BRESLIN, SAMPSON, SAVINO, SMITH -- 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 including the forgery of a
certificate of insurance or an insurance identification card within
the offense of forgery in the second degree and the forgery of 10 or
more instruments with the offense of forgery in the first degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 170.10 of the penal law is amended
2 and a new subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
3 5. A prescription of a duly licensed physician or other person author-
4 ized to issue the same for any drug or any instrument or device used in
5 the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
6 required by law[.]; or
7 6. A certificate of insurance or an insurance identification card, as
8 defined in section three hundred eleven of the vehicle and traffic law.
9 § 2. Section 170.15 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
10 § 170.15 Forgery in the first degree.
11 A person is guilty of forgery in the first degree when, with intent to
12 defraud, deceive or injure another, he or she falsely makes, completes
13 or alters [a]:
14 1. Ten or more written instruments; or
15 2. A written instrument which is or purports to be, or which is calcu-
16 lated to become or to represent if completed:
17 [1.] (a) Part of an issue of money, stamps, securities or other valu-
18 able instruments issued by a government or governmental instrumentality;
19 or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 [2.] (b) Part of an issue of stock, bonds or other instruments repres-
2 enting interests in or claims against a corporate or other organization
3 or its property.
4 Forgery in the first degree is a class C felony.
5 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
6 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
