Includes the impersonation of a doctor of medicine as criminal impersonation in the second degree, regardless of whether a person suffers harm from the medical advice or treatment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3040
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 1, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 impersona-
tion of a doctor of medicine as criminal impersonation in the second
degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 190.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. Impersonates a doctor of medicine and, in so doing, the actor
4 provides medical advice or treatment to another person as a patient,
5 regardless of whether or not the other person suffers harm from the
6 medical advice or treatment.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
8 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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