Adds the act of pretending to be an employee of a public utility company or corporation for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon a premises to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree, a class E felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2661
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- 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 criminal impersonation of
an employee of a public utility company or corporation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 190.26 of the penal law, as added
2 by chapter 2 of the laws of 1998, is amended and a new subdivision 4 is
3 added to read as follows:
4 3. Pretending to be a duly licensed physician or other person author-
5 ized to issue a prescription for any drug or any instrument or device
6 used in the taking or administering of drugs for which a prescription is
7 required by law, communicates to a pharmacist an oral prescription which
8 is required to be reduced to writing pursuant to section thirty-three
9 hundred thirty-two of the public health law[.]; or
10 4. Pretends to be an employee of a public utility company or a public
11 utility corporation as defined in section two of the public service law
12 for the purpose of knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon
13 a premises.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03971-01-9
