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L. 1909,

ch. 88, § 2211 amended.

§ 2215 amended.

L. 1909,
ch. 88,
§ 2188

amended.

CHAPTER 275

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sepulture.

Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section two thousand two hundred and eleven of chapter eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled, "An act providing for the punishment of crime, constituting chapter forty of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 2211. Duty of burial of the dead. Except in the cases in which a right to dissect it is expressly conferred by law, every dead body of a human being, lying within this state, must be decently buried or incinerated1 within a reasonable time after death.

§ 2. Section two thousand two hundred and fifteen of such chapter is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 2215. After dissection, remains must be buried or incinerated.1 In all cases in which a dissection has been made, the provisions of this article, requiring the burial or incineration of a dead body, and punishing interference with or injuries to it, apply equally to the remains of the body dissected, as soon as the lawful purposes of such dissection have been accomplished. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 276

AN ACT to amend the penal law and the code of criminal procedure in relation to suspensions of execution of judgment of conviction.

Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section twenty-one hundred and eighty-eight' of the penal law, is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 2188. Duty of court to sentence; suspending sentence; suspending execution of judgment; probation. The several sections of this chapter which declare certain crimes to be punishable as therein mentioned devolve a duty upon the court or magistrate authorized to pass sentence to determine and impose the punishment prescribed; but a court or magistrate authorized to impose sentence upon conviction of any crime not punishable by death or life imprisonment, or in any case of juvenile delinquency, or in any other proceeding of a criminal nature, whether the defendant

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has previously been convicted of a crime or not, may suspend sentence or impose sentence and suspend the execution of the2 judgment and may in either case place the defendant on probation in accordance with the provisions of section eleven-a of the code of criminal procedure. No provision of this chapter or of the code of criminal procedure or of any general statute shall be construed to prevent the court or magistrate authorized to impose sentence from exercising discretion to suspend sentence or suspend the execution of the judgment or to place on probation as hereinabove provided. If sentence shall have been suspended or, if sentence shall have been imposed and execution of the2 judgment shall have been suspended, at any time thereafter within the longest period for which a defendant might have been committed in the first instance or, if the defendant is on probation and the period of probation exceeds the period for which the defendant might have been sentenced, at any time while the defendant remains on probation, the court or magistrate having jurisdiction may issue process for the rearrest of the defendant, and when such defendant is arraigned may, if sentence shall have been suspended, impose any sentence or make any commitment which might have been imposed or made at the time of conviction or may, if sentence shall have been imposed and execution of the2 judgment suspended, revoke the order suspending execution of judgment and order executed the judgment the execution of which shall have been suspended or may modify the judgment so as to provide for the imposition of any punishment which might have been imposed at the time of conviction. Provided, however, that the imprisonment directed by the judgment, shall not be suspended or interrupted after such imprisonment shall have commenced.

§ 2. Section four hundred and seventy-a1 of the code of criminal code of procedure, is hereby amended to read as follows:

criminal procedure,

amended.

§ 470-a. Suspension of sentence; suspension of execution of 470a judgment. If, after a plea or verdict of guilty or after a verdict against the defendant upon a plea of former conviction or acquittal, sentence shall have been suspended, the court may impose any sentence or make any commitment which might have been imposed or made at the time of conviction. If sentence shall have been imposed and execution of the judgment suspended, the court may revoke the order suspending execution of judgment and order executed the judgment suspended or may modify the judgment so as to provide for the imposition of any punishment which might have been imposed at the time of conviction. The court may impose sentence or order judgment executed with or without modification as hereinabove provided at any time after such suspension of sentence or suspension of execution of judg2 Words "whole or a part of the" omitted.

3 Words "or the part thereof " omitted.

4 As added by L. 1893, ch. 651; and amended by L. 1918, ch. 467; L. 1920,

ch. 476.

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6 Words or the part thereof the execution of which shall have been," omitted.

§ 483, subd. 1 amended.

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may place

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ment within the longest period for which the defendant might have been sentenced or, if the defendant is on probation and the period of probation exceeds the period for which the defendant might have been sentenced, at any time while the defendant remains on probation; but not after the expiration of such period or periods, unless the defendant shall have been convicted of another crime committed during such period. Provided, however, that the imprisonment directed by the judgment shall not be suspended or interrupted after such imprisonment shall have commenced.

§ 3. Subdivision one of section four hundred and eighty-three of the code of criminal procedure is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. The court upon suspending sentence or suspending the execution of the judgment, may place such person on probation suspending during such suspension under the charge and supervision sentence. of a probation officer, in accordance with officer, in accordance with the provisions of section eleven-a of the code of criminal procedure. When practicable, any minor child, placed on probation, shall be placed with a probation officer of the same religious faith as that of the child's parents. The parents, guardian or custodian of such child, if the child has any, shall be summoned by the magistrate to attend any examination or trial of such child and to be present in court when the child is placed on probation and informed by the court of the action taken in such case.

In effect Sept. 1, 1925.

4. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

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§ 2240a
added to
L. 1909,
ch. 88.

CHAPTER 277

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to selling merchandise, soliciting orders and receiving contributions while in uniform.

Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The penal law is hereby amended by adding after section twenty-two hundred and forty, a new section to be section twenty-two hundred and forty-a, to read as follows:

§ 2240-a. Unauthorized wearing of uniforms. Whoever without authorization wears the uniform, or any distinctive part thereof, of the United States army, navy, marine corps, revenue cutter service, or coast guard, or of the national guard for the purpose of securing personal profit by means of such uniform or distinctive part thereof in soliciting alms, in selling merchandise or taking orders for the same, in seeking or receiving contributions in support of any cause, enterprise or undertaking or in soliciting or receiving subscriptions to any book, paper or magazine, shall be guilty of a

7 As amended by L. 1901, ch. 372; L. 1903, chs. 274, 613; L. 1905, ch. 656; L. 1909, ch. 217; L. 1910, ch. 346; L. 1918, ch. 443.

8 Words "whole or a part of the" omitted.

misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than three months. This section shall not apply to the sale of property or any other act or transaction conducted under authority of the government of the United States.

§ 2. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hun- In effect dred and twenty-five.

Sept. 1, 1925.

CHAPTER 278

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to correcting a manifest error in the section relating to false representations concerning securities. Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

ch. 88,

Section 1. Section nine hundred and fifty-two of the penal law, L. 1909, as added by chapter four hundred and seventy-five of the laws § 952 of nineteen hundred and thirteen," is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 952. False statement or advertisement as to securities. Any person, who, with intent to deceive, makes, issues or publishes,

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cor

causes to be made, issued or published, any statement or advertisement as to the value or as to facts affecting the value of the stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt of a poration, company or association, or as to the financial condition or1 facts affecting the financial condition of any corporation, company or association which has issued, is issuing or is about to issue stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt, and who knows, or has reasonable ground to believe that any material representation, prediction or promise made in such statement or advertisement is false, is guilty of a felony, punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than three years, or by both.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 279

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the correction of an error in enactment.

Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

amended.

ch. 88,

Section 1. Section fourteen hundred and thirty-five of the penal L. 1909, law as enacted by chapter two hundred and sixty-five of the laws § 1435 of nineteen hundred and eighteen is hereby renumbered to be renumsection twelve hundred and seventy-nine of said penal law. § 1279. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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added to L. 1909,

ch. 88, § 1425. Malicious injury.

In effect Sept. 1, 1925.

CHAPTER 280

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to destruction of timber on certain mortgaged premises.

Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows·

Section 1. Section fourteen hundred and twenty-five of the penal law is hereby amended by inserting therein a new subdivision, to be subdivision one-a, to read as follows:

1-a. Without the written consent of the record owner of the mortgage, cuts down or removes, for other than domestic use thereon, any wood or timber standing upon premises covered by a duly recorded mortgage which contains a clause forbidding such cutting and removal of wood and timber; or,

§ 2. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

L. 1909,

ch. 88, § 1425, caption

amended.

amended.

CHAPTER 281

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to taking, injuring and destroying trees, wild flowers and other vegetation growing on public and private lands.

Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The caption of section fourteen hundred and twenty. five of the penal law is hereby amended to read as follows: Wilful or malicious injury to and taking, injuring or destroying property, and desecration of the flag.1

Subds. 2, 3 § 2. Subdivisions two and three of such section fourteen hundred and twenty-five of such chapter are hereby amended to read as follows:

Injury to trees.

Picking trailing

arbutus.

Severing

from free

hold of

another.

2. Cuts down, girdles or otherwise injures or destroys, a fruit, shade or ornamental tree standing on the lands of another, 3or takes, picks, plucks, severs, carries away, removes, injures or destroys any wild or cultivated trailing arbutus (epigaea repens) growing on the lands of the people of the state, or in any street, highway, public place or park belonging to or under the control of any county, city, town or village; or,

3. Severs from the freehold of another, or of the people of the state, any produce thereof, or any thing attached thereto; or,

1 Caption formerly read: "Malicious injury to and destruction of property." or destroys new.

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3 Remainder of subd. 2 new.

4 The legislative bill, as originally introduced, sought to amend subds. 3, 4. However in course of passage through the legislature the bill was so amended as to leave these subdivisions to read as formerly.

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