STATE OF NEW YORK
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4898
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- 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 criminal
street gang recruitment of a minor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 460.10 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. "Criminal street gang" means any ongoing organization, association,
4 or group of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, having as
5 one of its primary activities the commission of one or more criminal
6 acts, which has an identifiable name or identifying sign or symbol, and
7 whose members individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in
8 criminal street gang activity.
9 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 460.65 to read
10 as follows:
11 § 460.65 Criminal street gang recruitment of a minor.
12 A person is guilty of criminal street gang recruitment of a minor when
13 he or she coerces, solicits, recruits or induces a person under sixteen
14 years of age to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or
15 conspires to do so.
16 Criminal street gang recruitment of a minor is a class C felony.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
18 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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