Senate Bill S395

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of mentally disabled and the crime of larceny

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S395 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4447
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§155.00 & 155.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7177, A8777
2017-2018: S5900, A3215
2019-2020: S1070, A1857
2021-2022: S1710

2015-S395 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the definition of mentally disabled and the crime of larceny.

2015-S395 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S395 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   395

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the definition of mentally
  disabled and in relation to larceny

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 155.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 10 to read as follows:
  10. "MENTALLY DISABLED" MEANS THAT A  PERSON  SUFFERS  FROM  A  MENTAL
DISEASE,  DEFECT  OR  CONDITION  WHICH  RENDERS  HIM OR HER INCAPABLE OF
APPRAISING THE NATURE OF THE CONDUCT CONSTITUTING THE TAKING,  OBTAINING
OR WITHHOLDING OF HIS OR HER PROPERTY.
  S 2. Section 155.10 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
S 155.10 Larceny; no defense.
  1.  The  crimes  of (a) larceny committed by means of extortion and an
attempt to commit the same, and (b) bribe receiving by a labor  official
as  defined in section 180.20, and bribe receiving as defined in section
200.05, are not mutually exclusive, and it is no  defense  to  a  prose-
cution  for larceny committed by means of extortion or for an attempt to
commit the same that, by reason of the same conduct, the defendant  also
committed one of such specified crimes of bribe receiving.
  2.  IT  IS  NO DEFENSE TO A PROSECUTION FOR LARCENY THAT THE DEFENDANT
OBTAINED CONSENT TO TAKE,  WITHHOLD,  OR  OBTAIN  PROPERTY,  WHERE  SUCH
CONSENT WAS OBTAINED FROM A PERSON WHOM THE DEFENDANT KNEW OR HAD REASON
TO KNOW WAS MENTALLY DISABLED.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01360-01-5


              

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