File #: Int 0703-2005    Version: Name: Increasing civil penalties for vandalizing houses of religious worship or religious articles contained therein.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 8/17/2005
Enactment date: 12/1/2005 Law number: 2005/102
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing civil penalties for damaging houses of religious worship or religious articles therein.
Sponsors: James S. Oddo, Dennis P. Gallagher, Andrew J. Lanza, Gifford Miller, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Tony Avella, Lewis A. Fidler, James F. Gennaro, Vincent J. Gentile, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, Miguel Martinez, Michael E. McMahon, Michael C. Nelson, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Kendall Stewart, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., David I. Weprin, Gale A. Brewer, Yvette D. Clarke, Helen D. Foster, Alan J. Gerson, Sara M. Gonzalez, G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Bill Perkins, Joel Rivera, James Sanders, Jr., Albert Vann, Philip Reed, Melinda R. Katz, Larry B. Seabrook, Helen Sears, Betsy Gotbaum
Council Member Sponsors: 35
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript, 3. Fiscal Impact Statement, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11/16, 5. Local Law
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/5/2005AJames S. Oddo City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/1/2005AJames S. Oddo Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/1/2005AJames S. Oddo Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/16/2005AJames S. Oddo City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/16/2005AJames S. Oddo City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2005*James S. Oddo Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2005*James S. Oddo Committee on Public Safety Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2005*James S. Oddo Committee on Public Safety Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2005AJames S. Oddo Committee on Public Safety Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
8/17/2005*James S. Oddo City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/17/2005*James S. Oddo City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 703-A

 

By Council Members Oddo, Gallagher, Lanza, The Speaker (Council Member Miller), Addabbo Jr., Arroyo, Avella, Fidler, Gennaro, Gentile, Jackson, James, Martinez, McMahon, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Stewart, Vallone Jr., Weprin, Brewer, Clarke, Foster, Gerson, Gonzalez, Koppell, Liu, Perkins, Rivera, Sanders Jr., Vann, Reed, Katz, Seabrook, Sears and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing civil penalties for damaging houses of religious worship or religious articles therein.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 10-116 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 70 of 1996, is amended to read as follows:

§ 10-116 Damaging houses of religious worship or religious articles therein prohibited.  Any person who willfully and without authority breaks, defaces or otherwise damages any house of religious worship or any portion thereof, or any appurtenances thereto, including religious figures or religious monuments, or any book, scroll, ark, furniture, ornaments, musical instrument, article of silver or plated ware, or any other chattel contained therein for use in connection with religious worship, or any person who knowingly aids, abets, conceals or in any way assists any such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment of not more than one year or by a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred nor less than five hundred dollars, or both.  In addition, any person violating this section shall be subject to a civil penalty [not to exceed ten thousand dollars] of not less than ten thousand dollars and not more than twenty-five thousand dollars.  Such civil penalty shall be in addition to any criminal penalty or sanction that may be imposed, and such civil penalty shall not limit or preclude any cause of action available to any person or entity aggrieved by any of the acts prohibited by this section.

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment into law. 

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