STATE OF NEW YORK
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5969
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 9, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 the unlawful wearing of a
body vest
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 270.20 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 317 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. A person is guilty of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when
5 acting either alone or with one or more other persons he or she wears a
6 body vest and:
7 (a) commits any violent felony offense defined in section 70.02, or
8 any class A felony offense other than one defined in article two hundred
9 twenty, or commits assault or reckless endangerment as those offenses
10 are defined in article one hundred twenty, while possessing or appearing
11 to possess a firearm, rifle [or], shotgun [and in the course of and in
12 furtherance of such crime he wears a body vest], deadly weapon, danger-
13 ous instrument or ammunition; or
14 (b) commits any violent felony offense as defined in section 70.02 or
15 any class A felony offense other than one defined in article two hundred
16 twenty, having previously been convicted within the preceding ten years
17 of any such offense.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11530-01-7