New York S 6658: Establishes the crime of committing an offense while impersonating a police officer or peace officer when they commit a specified offense and pretend to be a police or peace officer

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S06658 Summary:

BILL NOS06658 

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Add §190.28, amd §70.25, Pen L

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Establishes the crime of committing an offense while impersonating a police officer or peace officer when they commit a specified offense and during the course of such specified offense either pretends to be a police or peace officer; establishes the criminal sanction for committing such a crime depends on the specified offense that was being committed.

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03/19/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6658

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 19, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- 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 creating the crime of
 committing an offense while impersonating a police officer or peace
 officer

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.28 to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 190.28 Committing an offense while impersonating a police officer or
 4 peace officer.
 5 1. A person is guilty of committing an offense while impersonating a
 6 police officer or peace officer when they commit a specified offense and
 7 during the course of such specified offense either:
 8 (a) pretends to be a police officer or peace officer, or wears or
 9 displays without authority, any uniform, badge or other insignia or
 10 facsimile thereof, by which such police officer or peace officer is
 11 lawfully distinguished or expresses by their words or actions that they
 12 are acting with the approval or authority of any police department or
 13 law enforcement agency; or
 14 (b) without authority to display on a motor vehicle lights or markings
 15 by which a motor vehicle operated by a police department or law enforce-
 16 ment agency is identified, displays such lights or markings; or displays
 17 upon a motor vehicle a red light, whether continuous or flashing, visi-
 18 ble from the front of such vehicle.
 19 2. For the purposes of this section a "specified offense" is an
 20 offense defined by any of the following provisions of this chapter:
 21 section 100.00 (criminal solicitation in the fifth degree); section
 22 100.05 (criminal solicitation in the fourth degree); section 100.08
 23 (criminal solicitation in the third degree); section 100.10 (criminal
 24 solicitation in the second degree); section 100.13 (criminal solicita-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09906-01-5

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 1 tion in the first degree); section 115.00 (criminal facilitation in the
 2 fourth degree); section 115.01 (criminal facilitation in the third
 3 degree); section 115.05 (criminal facilitation in the second degree);
 4 section 115.08 (criminal facilitation in the first degree); section
 5 120.00 (assault in the third degree); section 120.05 (assault in the
 6 second degree); section 120.10 (assault in the first degree); section
 7 120.12 (aggravated assault upon a person less than eleven years old);
 8 section 120.13 (menacing in the first degree); section 120.14 (menacing
 9 in the second degree); section 120.15 (menacing in the third degree);
 10 section 120.20 (reckless endangerment in the second degree); section
 11 120.25 (reckless endangerment in the first degree); section 120.45
 12 (stalking in the fourth degree); section 120.50 (stalking in the third
 13 degree); section 120.55 (stalking in the second degree); section 120.60
 14 (stalking in the first degree); section 125.10 (criminally negligent
 15 homicide); section 125.15 (manslaughter in the second degree); section
 16 125.20 (manslaughter in the first degree); section 125.25 (murder in the
 17 second degree); subdivision one of section 130.35 (rape in the first
 18 degree); subdivision one of section 130.65 (sexual abuse in th