A939-2011 Actions

• May 12, 2011: enacting clause stricken
• Jan 5, 2011: referred to codes

A939-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                          939
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 (PREFILED)
 January 5, 2011
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PHEFFER -- read once and referred to the Commit
 tee on Codes
 

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the possession of anti-se
 curity items
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.

Section 155.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 12 to read as follows:

 12. THE PROPERTY IS TAKEN BY A PERSON  WHO  IS  IN  POSSESSION  OF  AN
 ANTI-SECURITY ITEM. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION AN "ANTI-SECUR
 ITY  ITEM"  IS DEFINED AS AN ITEM DESIGNED FOR THE PURPOSE OF OVERCOMING
 DETECTION OF SECURITY MARKINGS OR ATTACHMENTS PLACED ON PROPERTY OFFERED
 FOR SALE AT SUCH AN ESTABLISHMENT.
 

S 2.

Section 170.47 of the penal law, as added by chapter 580  of  the
 laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:

 

S 170.47 Criminal possession of an anti-security item.
 A  person  is  guilty of criminal possession of an anti-security item,
 when with intent to steal property at a retail mercantile  establishment
 as defined in article twelve-B of the general business law, he knowingly
 possesses  in  such an establishment an item designed for the purpose of
 overcoming detection of security markings or attachments placed on prop
 erty offered for sale at such an establishment.
 Criminal possession of an anti-security item is a class [B]  A  misde
 meanor.
 

S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed
 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.
 LBD00388-01-1

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