S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1905
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SKELOS -- 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 theft of a motor vehi-
         cle while a child is present therein
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 155.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 464
    2  of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
    3  S 155.35 Grand larceny in the third degree.
    4    A person is guilty of grand larceny in the third degree when he or she
    5  steals property and WHEN:
    6    1. [when] the value of the property exceeds three thousand dollars[,];
    7  or
    8    2. the property is an automated teller machine or the contents  of  an
    9  automated teller machine[.]; OR
   10    3. THE PROPERTY CONSISTS OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE
   11  HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE  OF  THE  VEHICLE  AND TRAFFIC LAW, AND, DURING THE
   12  COMMISSION OF SUCH OFFENSE, A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF  SIXTEEN  YEARS  IS
   13  PRESENT IN OR ON SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE.
   14    Grand larceny in the third degree is a class D felony.
   15    S  2.  Section 155.42 of the penal law, as added by chapter 515 of the
   16  laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
   17  S 155.42 Grand larceny in the first degree.
   18    A person is guilty of grand larceny in the first degree when he OR SHE
   19  steals property and when [the]:
   20    1. THE value of the property exceeds one million dollars[.]; OR
   21    2. THE PROPERTY, REGARDLESS OF ITS VALUE, CONSISTS OF A MOTOR VEHICLE,
   22  AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC
   23  LAW, IS OBTAINED BY EXTORTION COMMITTED BY INSTILLING IN  THE  VICTIM  A
   24  FEAR THAT THE ACTOR OR ANOTHER PERSON WILL CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY TO SOME
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05820-01-3
       S. 1905                             2
    1  PERSON,  IN  THE  FUTURE,  AND A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN YEARS IS
    2  PRESENT IN OR ON SUCH  MOTOR  VEHICLE  DURING  THE  COMMISSION  OF  SUCH
    3  OFFENSE.
    4    Grand larceny in the first degree is a class B felony.
    5    S 3. Section 160.15 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 374 of the
    6  laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows:
    7  S 160.15 Robbery in the first degree.
    8    A  person  is  guilty  of  robbery  in the first degree when he OR SHE
    9  forcibly steals property and when[, in]:
   10    1. IN the course of the commission of the crime or of immediate flight
   11  therefrom, he, SHE or another participant in the crime:
   12    [1.] (A) Causes serious physical injury to any person  who  is  not  a
   13  participant in the crime; or
   14    [2.] (B) Is armed with a deadly weapon; or
   15    [3.]  (C)  Uses  or threatens the immediate use of a dangerous instru-
   16  ment; or
   17    [4.] (D) Displays what appears to be a pistol, revolver, rifle,  shot-
   18  gun,  machine gun or other firearm; except that in any prosecution under
   19  this [subdivision] PARAGRAPH, it is an  affirmative  defense  that  such
   20  pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun or other firearm was not a
   21  loaded  weapon  from which a shot, readily capable of producing death or
   22  other serious physical injury, could be discharged. Nothing contained in
   23  this [subdivision] PARAGRAPH shall constitute a defense to a prosecution
   24  for, or preclude a conviction of, robbery in the second degree,  robbery
   25  in the third degree or any other crime[.]; OR
   26    2. THE PROPERTY CONSISTS OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE
   27  HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE  OF  THE  VEHICLE  AND TRAFFIC LAW, AND, DURING THE
   28  COMMISSION OF SUCH OFFENSE, A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF  SIXTEEN  YEARS  IS
   29  PRESENT IN OR ON SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE.
   30    Robbery in the first degree is a class B felony.
   31    S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   32  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.