S 1039: Creates the crime of unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1039 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating the crime of unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.45 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 270.45 Unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device. 4 A person is guilty of unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming 5 device when, having no right to do so, they knowingly possess a device 6 capable of disrupting and/or interfering with wireless communications 7 through radio noise or signals. 8 Unlawful possession of a radio frequency jamming device is a class D 9 felony. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02463-01-5