Includes, for the purpose of payment of restitution or reparation, within the definition of the term "victim" any person or entity which provides assistance for the prevention or mitigation of damage to person or property caused by an offense.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4305--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 28, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. DeFRANCISCO, GRIFFO, JOHNSON, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the payment of reparation
or restitution in certain instances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 60.27 of the
2 penal law, as amended by chapter 313 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (b) the term "victim" shall include the victim of the offense, the
5 representative of a crime victim as defined in subdivision six of
6 section six hundred twenty-one of the executive law, an individual whose
7 identity was assumed or whose personal identifying information was used
8 in violation of section 190.78, 190.79 or 190.80 of this chapter, or any
9 person who has suffered a financial loss as a direct result of the acts
10 of a defendant in violation of section 190.78, 190.79, 190.80, 190.82 or
11 190.83 of this chapter, a good samaritan as defined in section six
12 hundred twenty-one of the executive law, any person or entity which
13 provides assistance for the prevention or mitigation of damage to person
14 or property caused by an offense and the office of victim services or
15 other governmental agency that has received an application for or has
16 provided financial assistance or compensation to the victim. A victim
17 shall also mean any owner or lawful producer of a master recording, or a
18 trade association that represents such owner or lawful producer, that
19 has suffered injury as a result of an offense as defined in article two
20 hundred seventy-five of this chapter.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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