Bill Text: NY S04133 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to aggravated assault upon a police officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-08 - referred to codes [S04133 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04133-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4133
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 2, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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 aggravated assault upon  a
         police 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 section  283
    2  of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
    3  S 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]:
    6    (A) WITH intent to cause serious physical injury to a person  whom  he
    7  OR SHE knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or a peace
    8  officer  engaged in the course of performing his OR HER official duties,
    9  he OR SHE causes such injury by means of a deadly  weapon  or  dangerous
   10  instrument; OR
   11    (B)  WITH  INTENT  TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY TO A PERSON WHOM HE OR SHE
   12  KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POLICE OFFICER OR A PEACE  OFFI-
   13  CER  ENGAGED  IN THE COURSE OF PERFORMING HIS OR HER OFFICIAL DUTIES AND
   14  WHEN AIDED BY TWO OR MORE OTHER PERSONS ACTUALLY PRESENT AT AN  ASSEMBLY
   15  IN A PUBLIC PLACE, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION
   16  240.00  OF THIS CHAPTER, HE OR SHE CAUSES PHYSICAL INJURY TO SUCH POLICE
   17  OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER.
   18    Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
   19  B felony.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09398-01-5