Bill Text: NY A06265 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elevates assault of a code enforcement official in the second degree to a class D felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A06265 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06265-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6265

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to elevating an assault of a
          code enforcement official to the class D  felony  of  assault  in  the
          second degree

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of  section  120.05  of  the  penal  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  267  of  the  laws  of 2016, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. With intent to prevent a peace officer, a police officer,  prosecu-
     5  tor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal
     6  procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health
     7  sanitarian,  New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation enforce-
     8  ment agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefighter, including  a
     9  firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical technician admin-
    10  istering  first  aid  in the course of performance of duty as such fire-
    11  fighter, an emergency medical service  paramedic  or  emergency  medical
    12  service  technician, or medical or related personnel in a hospital emer-
    13  gency department, a city marshal,  a  school  crossing  guard  appointed
    14  pursuant  to section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, a
    15  traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, code enforcement
    16  official, or employee of any entity governed by the public  service  law
    17  in  the  course  of  performing  an essential service, from performing a
    18  lawful duty, by means including  releasing  or  failing  to  control  an
    19  animal  under  circumstances evincing the actor's intent that the animal
    20  obstruct the lawful activity of  such  peace  officer,  police  officer,
    21  prosecutor  as  defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the
    22  criminal procedure law,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,
    23  public  health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sani-
    24  tation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker,  firefighter,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03502-01-3
        A. 6265                             2

     1  paramedic,  technician,  city  marshal,  school crossing guard appointed
     2  pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the  general  municipal  law,
     3  traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, code enforcement
     4  official,  or  employee of an entity governed by the public service law,
     5  he or she causes physical injury to such peace officer, police  officer,
     6  prosecutor  as  defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the
     7  criminal procedure law,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,
     8  public  health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sani-
     9  tation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker,  firefighter,
    10  paramedic,  technician  or  medical  or  related personnel in a hospital
    11  emergency department,  city  marshal,  school  crossing  guard,  traffic
    12  enforcement  officer,  traffic enforcement agent, code enforcement offi-
    13  cial, or employee of an entity governed by the public service law; or
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.