Provides that anyone who directs, hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual to cause a collision involving a motor vehicle shall be guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7754--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
November 15, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- 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 committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of staging a
motor vehicle accident in the second degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 176.75 of the penal law, as added by chapter 151 of
2 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 176.75 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
4 A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second
5 degree when, with intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent
6 insurance act, he or she operates a motor vehicle and intentionally
7 causes a collision involving a motor vehicle, or directs, hires,
8 requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual to
9 cause a collision involving a motor vehicle.
10 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree is a class E
11 felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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