Bill Text: NY A04093 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Creates new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant; establishes that assaulting such a retired police officer with intent to seek retribution is assault in the first degree.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-02 - print number 4093b [A04093 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04093-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Creates new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant; establishes that assaulting such a retired police officer with intent to seek retribution is assault in the first degree.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-02 - print number 4093b [A04093 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04093-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4093 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 29, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assaulting a retired police officer THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 13 to read as follows: 3 13. WITH THE INTENT TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY TO A SPECIFIC RETIRED 4 POLICE OFFICER, AS POLICE OFFICER IS DEFINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION 5 THIRTY-FOUR OF SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW, DUE TO A 6 BELIEF OR PERCEPTION REGARDING SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER'S INVOLVEMENT 7 IN A PREVIOUS ARREST OF SUCH PERSON WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY, HE OR SHE 8 CAUSES SUCH INJURY TO SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER OR A THIRD PERSON. 9 S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 120.10 of the penal law, as amended by 10 chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is 11 added to read as follows: 12 4. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted 13 commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he, or another 14 participant if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a person 15 other than one of the participants[.] ; OR 16 5. WITH INTENT TO CAUSE SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY TO A SPECIFIC RETIRED 17 POLICE OFFICER, AS POLICE OFFICER IS DEFINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION 18 THIRTY-FOUR OF SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW, DUE TO A 19 BELIEF OR PERCEPTION REGARDING SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER'S INVOLVEMENT 20 IN A PREVIOUS ARREST OF SUCH PERSON WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY, HE OR SHE 21 CAUSES SUCH INJURY TO SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER OR TO A THIRD PERSON. 22 S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 23 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00491-02-5