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 ยง 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