New York Assembly Bill A06816 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6816 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 8, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 176.75 of the penal law, as added by chapter 151 of 2 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 176.75 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree. 4 A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second 5 degree when, with intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent 6 insurance act, he or she operates a motor vehicle and intentionally 7 causes a collision involving a motor vehicle, or directs, hires, 8 requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual to 9 cause a collision involving a motor vehicle. 10 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree is a class E 11 felony. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10753-01-3