Removes requirement that person be informed of the consequences of such act to be guilty of the crime of false personation; raises penalty for false personation from a class B to a class A misdemeanor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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778
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. ALESI -- 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 the crime of false perso-
nation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 190.23 of the penal law, as added by chapter 69 of
2 the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 190.23 False personation.
4 A person is guilty of false personation when [after being informed of
5 the consequences of such act,] he or she knowingly misrepresents his or
6 her actual name, date of birth or address to a police officer or peace
7 officer with intent to prevent such police officer or peace officer from
8 ascertaining such information.
9 False personation is a class [B] A misdemeanor.
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.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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