New York A 6281: Relates to offering false information on documents to obtain a building permit

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A06281 Summary:

BILL NOA06281 

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SAME ASSAME AS S09913

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SPONSORSimone

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §175.35, Pen L

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Includes filing certain building permit applications containing false statements regarding tenant occupancy in the offense of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.

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BILL NOA06281 

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03/03/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6281

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including filing certain
 building permit applications containing false statements regarding
 tenant occupancy in the offense of offering a false instrument for
 filing in the first degree

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

 1 Section 1. Section 175.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 490
 2 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 175.35 Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
 4 A person is guilty of offering a false instrument for filing in the
 5 first degree when:
 6 1. knowing that a written instrument contains a false statement or
 7 false information, and with intent to defraud the state or any political
 8 subdivision, public authority or public benefit corporation of the
 9 state, [he or she] such person offers or presents it to a public office,
 10 public servant, public authority or public benefit corporation with the
 11 knowledge or belief that it will be filed with, registered or recorded
 12 in or otherwise become a part of the records of such public office,
 13 public servant, public authority or public benefit corporation; or
 14 2. (a) [he or she] such person commits the crime of offering a false
 15 instrument for filing in the second degree; and
 16 (b) such instrument is a financing statement the contents of which are
 17 prescribed by section 9--502 of the uniform commercial code, the collat-
 18 eral asserted to be covered in such statement is the property of a
 19 person who is a state or local officer as defined by section two of the
 20 public officers law or who otherwise is a judge or justice of the
 21 unified court system, such financing statement does not relate to an
 22 actual transaction, and [he or she] such person filed such financing

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04001-01-5

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 1 statement in retaliation for the performance of official duties by such
 2 person; or
 3 3. with intent to obtain a building permit in violation of an existing
 4 law, rule or regulation, such person offers or presents to a public
 5 office, public servant, public authority or public benefit corporation a
 6 building permit application for purposes of demolishing or significantly
 7 renovating a property located in a city having a population of one
 8 million or more persons, knowing that such building permit application
 9 contains a false statement or false information regarding the extent of
 10 the tenant occupancy.
 11 Offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree is a class
 12 E felony.
 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 14 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.

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