Bill Text: NY A10491 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to assaults upon certain employees of a transit agency or authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-27 - signed chap.233 [A10491 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10491-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10491

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 28, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cook) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  assaults  upon  certain
          employees of a transit agency or authority

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as sepa-
     2  rately amended by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    11.  With  intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
     5  inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station
     6  cleaner [or], terminal cleaner, station customer assistant; person whose
     7  official duties include the  sale  or  collection  of  tickets,  passes,
     8  vouchers,  or  other revenue payment media for use on a  train or bus or
     9  the collection or handling of revenues therefrom; a person  whose  offi-
    10  cial  duties  include the maintenance, repair, inspection, troubleshoot-
    11  ing, testing or cleaning of buses, a transit signal system, elevated  or
    12  underground  subway  tracks,  transit  station structure, including fare
    13  equipment,  escalators,  elevators  and  other  equipment  necessary  to
    14  passenger service, commuter rail tracks or stations, train yard, revenue
    15  train  in passenger service, or a train or bus station or terminal; or a
    16  supervisor of such personnel, employed by any transit or  commuter  rail
    17  agency,  authority  or  company,  public  or private, whose operation is
    18  authorized by New York state or any of  its  political  subdivisions,  a
    19  city  marshal, a school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two
    20  hundred eight-a of the general  municipal  law,  a  traffic  enforcement
    21  officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision
    22  thirty-one  of  section  1.20  of the criminal procedure law, sanitation
    23  enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, public health  sani-
    24  tarian,  New  York  city  public  health  sanitarian,  registered nurse,
    25  licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or  emer-
    26  gency  medical  service  technician, he or she causes physical injury to
    27  such train operator,  ticket  inspector,  conductor,  signalperson,  bus
    28  operator, station agent, station cleaner [or], terminal cleaner, station

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15956-02-2
        A. 10491                            2

     1  customer  assistant;  person  whose  official duties include the sale or
     2  collection of tickets, passes, vouchers or other revenue  payment  media
     3  for  use  on  a   train or bus or the collection or handling of revenues
     4  therefrom;  a  person  whose  official  duties  include the maintenance,
     5  repair, inspection, troubleshooting, testing or  cleaning  of  buses,  a
     6  transit  signal  system,  elevated or underground subway tracks, transit
     7  station structure, including fare equipment, escalators,  elevators  and
     8  other  equipment necessary to passenger service, commuter rail tracks or
     9  stations, train yard, revenue train in passenger service, or a train  or
    10  bus  station  or  terminal;  or  a  supervisor  of  such personnel, city
    11  marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred
    12  eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement officer, traf-
    13  fic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in  subdivision  thirty-one
    14  of  section  1.20  of  the  criminal  procedure  law,  registered nurse,
    15  licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New York city public
    16  health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New York  city  sanita-
    17  tion  worker,  emergency medical service paramedic, or emergency medical
    18  service technician, while such employee is performing an  assigned  duty
    19  on,  or directly related to, the operation of a train or bus, [including
    20  the] cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal,  assisting  custom-
    21  ers,  the  sale  or  collection  of  tickets, passes, vouchers, or other
    22  revenue media for use on a train or bus, or maintenance or cleaning of a
    23  train, a bus, or bus station or terminal,  signal  system,  elevated  or
    24  underground  subway  tracks,  transit  station structure, including fare
    25  equipment,  escalators,  elevators  and  other  equipment  necessary  to
    26  passenger  service,  commuter  rail  tracks  or  stations, train yard or
    27  revenue train in passenger service, or such city marshal, school  cross-
    28  ing  guard,  traffic  enforcement  officer,  traffic  enforcement agent,
    29  prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20  of  the
    30  criminal  procedure  law,  registered  nurse,  licensed practical nurse,
    31  public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian,  sani-
    32  tation  enforcement  agent,  New  York city sanitation worker, emergency
    33  medical service paramedic, or emergency medical  service  technician  is
    34  performing an assigned duty; or
    35    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    36  have become a law.