Bill Text: NY A04804 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the offense of obstructing a police officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 29-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A04804 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04804-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4804

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing  the  offense
          of obstructing a police officer

          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 195.09  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 195.09 Obstructing a police officer.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of  obstructing a police officer when he or she
     5  intentionally interferes with, inhibits, or attempts to  interfere  with
     6  or  inhibit,  a  police  officer or a peace officer from engaging in the
     7  course of performing their official duties, including  but  not  limited
     8  to:
     9    1. spitting, throwing or spilling items, liquid or otherwise, at or on
    10  such officer; or
    11    2.   pushing,  shoving,  kicking,  physically  impeding  or  otherwise
    12  subjecting such officer to physical contact.
    13    Obstructing a police officer is a class E felony.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06978-01-1