Assembly Bill A6249

2015-2016 Legislative Session

In relation to aggravated assault upon a police officer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A6249 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4133
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.11, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A4122, S31
2019-2020: A4214
2021-2022: A9219
2023-2024: A498

2015-A6249 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to aggravated assault upon a police officer.

2015-A6249 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6249

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 18, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred 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:

  Section  1. Section 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by section 283
of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
S 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.
  A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police  officer  or  a
peace officer when[, with]:
  (A)  WITH  intent to cause serious physical injury to a person whom he
OR SHE knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or a peace
officer engaged in the course of performing his OR HER official  duties,
he  OR  SHE  causes such injury by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous
instrument; OR
  (B) WITH INTENT TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY TO A PERSON WHOM  HE  OR  SHE
KNOWS  OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POLICE OFFICER OR A PEACE OFFI-
CER ENGAGED IN THE COURSE OF PERFORMING HIS OR HER OFFICIAL  DUTIES  AND
WHEN  AIDED BY TWO OR MORE OTHER PERSONS ACTUALLY PRESENT AT AN ASSEMBLY
IN A PUBLIC PLACE, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION
240.00 OF THIS CHAPTER, HE OR SHE CAUSES PHYSICAL INJURY TO SUCH  POLICE
OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER.
  Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
B felony.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09398-01-5

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