S4994 —

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This bill amends 1 section(s) of the New York Consolidated Laws: Section 145.22 of the penal law.

• Section 145.22 of the penal law

  , , or or article → or she or she used or , mausoleum, columbarium, lot, , niche, crypt, vault or tempo- rary storage or cremated human remains, or any monu- ment, headstone, marker, memorial, plaque, statue, vase, urn, deco- ration, flag holder, badge, shield, item of memorabilia, or other embellishment that is located on or adjacent to, or is otherwise associ- ated with, any such cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, lot, plot, grave, burial place, niche, crypt, vault, or other place of interment or tempo- rary storage or she , mausoleum, columbarium, lot, , niche, crypt, vault or temporary storage or cremated human remains, or any monument, headstone, marker, memorial, plaque, statue, vase, urn, decoration, flag holder, badge, shield, item of memorabilia, or other embellishment that is located on or adjacent to, or is otherwise associ- italics ated with, any such cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, lot, plot, grave, burial place, niche, crypt, vault, or other place of interment or tempo- rary storage, or stored , or she or she used or , mausoleum, columbarium, lot, , niche, crypt, vault or temporary storage or cremated human remains, or any monument, headstone, marker, memorial, plaque, statue, vase, urn, decoration, flag holder, badge, shield, item of memorabilia, or other embellishment that is located on or adjacent to, or is otherwise associated with, any such cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, lot, plot, grave, burial place, niche, crypt, vault, or other place of interment or temporary storage, or she , mausoleum, columbarium, lot, , niche, crypt, vault or temporary storage or cremated human remains, or any monument, headstone, marker, memorial, plaque, statue, vase, urn, decoration, flag holder, badge, shield, item of memorabilia, or other embellishment that is located on or adjacent to, or is otherwise associated with, any such cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, lot, plot, grave, burial place, niche, crypt, vault, or other place of interment or temporary storage, , cemetery desecration in the first degree, aggravated cemetery dese- cration in the second degree, aggravated cemetery desecration in the first degree or cemetery desecration of a veteran , or cemetery desecration of a veteran as defined in section 145.29 of this article § 145.28 Cemetery desecration of a veteran; definition of "veteran". For the purposes of section 145.29 of this article, the term "veteran" means a deceased person who: 1. (a) served in the active military, naval, or air service during a war in which the United States engaged; or (b) served in the reserve component of the armed forces, the organized militia of the state; or (c) is eligible to receive a standard government headstone or marker for installation in a private cemetery or a state veterans' cemetery provided by the United States department of veterans affairs who served in the United States armed forces; and 2. was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable. For the purposes of this section "reserve component of the armed forc- es of the United States" means the army reserve, the naval reserve, the marine corps reserve, the air force reserve, the coast guard reserve, the army national guard of the United States and the air national guard of the United States and whose service was during a war in which the United States engaged. Organized militia of the state, shall mean service other than permanent, full-time service in the military forces of the state of New York including but not limited to the New York army national guard, the New York air national guard, the naval militia and the New York guard (not including the inactive national guard and not including the New York guard in an inactive status). § 145.29 Cemetery desecration of a veteran. A person is guilty of cemetery desecration of a veteran when, with intent to damage the property of another person and having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such right, he or she intentionally dam

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