STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1375 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal impersonation of a certified first responder, an emergency medical technician, an advanced emergency medical technician, or a firefighter The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 190.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. Pretends to be a police officer, certified first responder, emer- 4 gency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, or 5 firefighter without any actual or implied authority to do so. 6 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 190.26 of the penal law, as amended by 7 chapter 434 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 8 1. Pretends to be a police officer [or a], federal law enforcement 9 officer as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law, 10 certified first responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emer- 11 gency medical technician or firefighter, or wears or displays without 12 authority, any uniform, badge or other insignia or facsimile thereof, by 13 which such police officer [or], federal law enforcement officer, certi- 14 fied first responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency 15 medical technician or firefighter is lawfully distinguished; or 16 expresses by his or her words or actions that he or she is acting with 17 the approval or authority of any police department or acting as a feder- 18 al law enforcement officer with the approval of any agency that employs 19 federal law enforcement officers as enumerated in section 2.15 of the 20 criminal procedure law; and 21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 22 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. LBD01438-01-7