S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 11, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred 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 DEFINED IN SECTION 70.02 OR ANY
15 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 S 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.
LBD11511-01-5