Fraudulent disposition of property subject to a conditional sale contract · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 185.15 Fraudulent disposition of property subject to a conditional
sale contract.
A person is guilty of fraudulent disposition of property subject to a conditional sale contract when, prior to the performance of the condition of a conditional sale contract and being the buyer or any legal successor in interest of the buyer, he sells, assigns, mortgages, exchanges, secretes, injures, destroys or otherwise disposes of the goods subject to the conditional sale contract under claim of full ownership, with intent thereby to defraud another.
Fraudulent disposition of property subject to a conditional sale contract is a class A misdemeanor.
Before a conditional-sale condition is fulfilled, a buyer or legal successor commits this offense by selling, assigning, mortgaging, exchanging, hiding, injuring, destroying, or otherwise disposing of the covered goods as though fully owned, with intent to defraud another. ★ It is a class A misdemeanor.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.