Bill Text: NY A10917 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the crime of aggravated resisting arrest as where a person intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or peace officer from effecting an authorized arrest of such person or another person through the use of physical force, where such authorized arrest is for a crime which is a felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - referred to codes [A10917 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10917-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10917

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 17, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Reilly) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  aggravated  resisting
          arrest

          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 205.35  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 205.35 Aggravated resisting arrest.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of aggravated resisting arrest when such person
     5  intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or  peace
     6  officer  from  effecting  an authorized arrest of such person or another
     7  person through the use of physical force, where such  authorized  arrest
     8  is for a crime which is a felony.
     9    Aggravated resisting arrest is a class D felony.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth 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.
                                                                   LBD16955-01-0
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