STATE OF NEW YORK
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5422--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, DeFRANCISCO, VALESKY -- 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 creating the crime of
tampering with electronic monitoring equipment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 145.75
2 and 145.80 to read as follows:
3 § 145.75 Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment in the second
4 degree.
5 1. For purposes of this section, "electronic monitoring equipment"
6 means an instrument or device utilized in accordance with subdivision
7 four of section 65.10 of this chapter.
8 2. A person is guilty of tampering with electronic monitoring equip-
9 ment in the second degree when, having no right to do so nor any reason-
10 able ground to believe that he or she has such right, he or she tampers
11 with electronic monitoring equipment, or damages or otherwise alters
12 such electronic monitoring equipment in an effort to interfere with any
13 signal, impulse or data being transmitted by such electronic monitoring
14 equipment.
15 Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment in the second degree is
16 a class A misdemeanor.
17 § 145.80 Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment in the first
18 degree.
19 1. A person is guilty of tampering with electronic monitoring equip-
20 ment in the first degree when, as part of committing tampering with
21 electronic monitoring equipment in the second degree as defined in
22 section 145.75 of this article, the person also commits a crime that is
23 classified as a class A or class B felony.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. When a person is convicted of tampering with electronic monitoring
2 equipment in the first degree, the court shall impose a sentence for
3 this crime to run consecutive to any sentence imposed for a conviction
4 for the class A or class B felony that was also committed.
5 Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment in the first degree is
6 a class E felony.
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.
