File #: Int 0761-2005    Version: * Name: Creating a civil penalty for bias-motivated property damage.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 11/30/2005
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating a civil penalty for bias-motivated property damage.
Sponsors: Peter F. Vallone, Jr., James S. Oddo, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Tony Avella, Lewis A. Fidler, James F. Gennaro, Vincent J. Gentile, Sara M. Gonzalez, Letitia James, John C. Liu, Michael E. McMahon, Michael C. Nelson, James Sanders, Jr., David I. Weprin
Council Member Sponsors: 14
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2005*Peter F. Vallone, Jr. City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/30/2005*Peter F. Vallone, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/30/2005*Peter F. Vallone, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 761

By Council Members Vallone Jr., Oddo, Addabbo Jr., Avella, Fidler, Gennaro, Gentile, Gonzalez, James, Liu, McMahon, Nelson, Sanders Jr. and Weprin

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating a civil penalty for bias-motivated property damage.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Chapter one of title ten of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 10-116.1, to read as follows:

                      §10-116.1 Civil penalty for bias-motivated property damage.

                     Any person who willfully and without authority breaks, defaces or otherwise damages any property, with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, because of a belief or perception regarding such person's race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct, shall be subject to a civil penalty 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.