STATE OF NEW YORK
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8363
IN SENATE
May 3, 2018
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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 insurance fraud
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 176.15 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 515
2 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 176.15 Insurance fraud in the fourth degree.
4 A person is guilty of insurance fraud in the fourth degree when:
5 1. he or she commits a fraudulent insurance act and thereby wrongfully
6 takes, obtains or withholds, or attempts to wrongfully take, obtain or
7 withhold property with a value in excess of one thousand dollars; or
8 2. he or she commits a fraudulent insurance act and the material fact
9 contained or concealed is that such person either (a) maintains a prin-
10 cipal residence in the other state when, in fact, that person's princi-
11 pal residence is in this state; or (b) has his or her motor vehicle
12 principally garaged in the other state, when, in fact, that person has
13 his or her motor vehicle principally garaged in this state. This
14 section shall not apply to a person who insures a vehicle in another
15 state, as permitted by and in accordance with the laws of that state,
16 based on a second residence, or attendance at an educational institu-
17 tion, in that other state, where such person also drives and garages a
18 vehicle in that state, if in obtaining the policy the person truthfully
19 discloses to the insurance company or producer the state of the person's
20 principal residence and the state where the vehicle is principally
21 garaged.
22 Insurance fraud in the fourth degree is a class E felony.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
24 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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