Check this out and contact your Senator!!! It's S07200
SENATE
March 18, 2008
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Introduced by Sen. AUBERTINE -- 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 commission of criminal
trespass 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. Subdivision 2 of section 35.20 of the penal law, as amended
2 by chapter 511 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. A person in possession or control of any premises, or a person
4 licensed or privileged to be thereon or therein, may use physical force
5 upon another person when he or she reasonably believes such to be neces-
6 sary to prevent or terminate what he or she reasonably believes to be
7 the commission or attempted commission by such other person of a crimi-
8 nal trespass upon such premises. Such person may use any degree of phys-
9 ical force, other than deadly physical force, which he or she reasonably
10 believes to be necessary for such purpose, and may use deadly physical
11 force in order to prevent or terminate the commission or attempted
12 commission of arson, as prescribed in subdivision one, or in the course
13 of a burglary or attempted burglary, as prescribed in subdivision three,
14 or in the course of criminal trespass in the first degree or attempted
15 criminal trespass in the first degree.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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