Expands the class A misdemeanor of public lewdness in the first degree to include the commission of public lewdness after having been convicted of a public lewdness offense in the previous 3 years.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6190
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 public lewdness in the
first degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 245.03 of the penal law, as added
2 by chapter 186 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. he or she commits the crime of public lewdness, as defined in
4 section 245.00 of this article, and [within the preceding year] has been
5 convicted of [an offense defined in] such [section 245.00] crime or of a
6 violation of this section within the preceding three years.
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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