STATE OF NEW YORK
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10892
IN ASSEMBLY
May 25, 2018
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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 the crime of aggravated
assault upon a police officer or a peace officer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 283
2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.
4 A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a
5 peace officer when, with intent to cause serious physical injury to a
6 person whom he knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or
7 a peace officer engaged in the course of performing his official duties,
8 he causes such injury [by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instru-
9 ment].
10 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
11 B felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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