Provides that a person who has previously been subjected to two or more petit larceny convictions within 18 months immediately preceding the charge shall be guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4857--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 15, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to allowing prosecutors to
combine certain charges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 9, 10 and 11 of section 155.30 of the penal
2 law, subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2010, subdi-
3 vision 10 as added by chapter 491 of the laws of 1992 and subdivision 11
4 as added by chapter 394 of the laws of 2005, are amended and a new
5 subdivision 12 is added to read as follows:
6 9. The property consists of a scroll, religious vestment, a vessel, an
7 item comprising a display of religious symbols which forms a represen-
8 tative expression of faith, or other miscellaneous item of property
9 which:
10 (a) has a value of at least one hundred dollars; and
11 (b) is kept for or used in connection with religious worship in any
12 building, structure or upon the curtilage of such building or structure
13 used as a place of religious worship by a religious corporation, as
14 incorporated under the religious corporations law or the education
15 law[.]; or
16 10. The property consists of an access device which the person intends
17 to use unlawfully to obtain telephone service[.]; or
18 11. The property consists of anhydrous ammonia or liquified ammonia
19 gas and the actor intends to use, or knows another person intends to
20 use, such anhydrous ammonia or liquified ammonia gas to manufacture
21 methamphetamine[.]; or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 12. Such person has previously been subjected to two or more petit
2 larceny convictions as defined in section 155.25 of this article within
3 the eighteen months immediately preceding the charge under this section.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
5 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
