Bill Text: NY A06875 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6875 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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) 2014-01-08 - referred to codes [A06875 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06875-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6875
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 23, 2013
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       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.  Subdivision  4  of  section  120.10  of the penal law, as
    2  amended by chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new  subdi-
    3  vision 5 is added to read as follows:
    4    4.  In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted
    5  commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he, or  another
    6  participant  if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a person
    7  other than one of the participants[.] ; OR
    8    5. WITH INTENT TO CAUSE SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY TO A SPECIFIC  RETIRED
    9  POLICE  OFFICER,  AS  POLICE  OFFICER IS DEFINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
   10  THIRTY-FOUR OF SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL  PROCEDURE  LAW,  DUE  TO  A
   11  BELIEF OR PERCEPTION REGARDING SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER'S INVOLVEMENT
   12  IN  A  PREVIOUS  ARREST  OF  SUCH PERSON WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY, HE OR SHE
   13  CAUSES SUCH INJURY TO SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER OR TO A THIRD PERSON.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   15  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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