Bill Text: NY S04260 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of aggravated resisting arrest; makes it a class E felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-24 - referred to codes [S04260 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04260-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 11, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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 establishing the crime  of
         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  S 205.35 AGGRAVATED RESISTING ARREST.
    4    A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF  AGGRAVATED  RESISTING ARREST WHEN HE OR SHE
    5  COMMITS THE CRIME OF RESISTING ARREST PURSUANT TO SECTION 205.30 AND HAS
    6  PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED OF SUCH CRIME TWO PRIOR  TIMES  WITHIN  A  TEN
    7  YEAR PERIOD.
    8    AGGRAVATED RESISTING ARREST IS A CLASS E FELONY.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09032-01-5