Bill Text: NY S01451 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1451 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to deeming assault on a station customer assistant, any person whose official duties include the sale of tickets, passes, vouchers or other payment of fare to use a train or bus, the maintenance or operation of a train or bus, or the maintenance or operation of a train or bus station or terminal while in performance of their assigned duties to be assault in the second degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-09 - referred to codes [S01451 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01451-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         1451--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Codes  in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to deeming assault on a
          station customer assistant, maintainer, cleaner or  janitor  while  in
          performance  of  their  assigned  duties  to  be 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  11  of  section  120.05 of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 487 of the laws  of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    11.  With  intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
     5  inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator  [or],  station  agent,
     6  station customer assistant, any person whose official duties include the
     7  sale  of  tickets,  passes,  vouchers  or other payment of fare to use a
     8  train or bus, any person whose official duties include  the  maintenance
     9  or operation of a train or bus station or terminal employed by any tran-
    10  sit  agency, authority or company, public or private, whose operation is
    11  authorized by New York state or any of  its  political  subdivisions,  a
    12  city  marshal, a school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two
    13  hundred eight-a of the general  municipal  law,  a  traffic  enforcement
    14  officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision
    15  thirty-one  of  section  1.20  of the criminal procedure law, sanitation
    16  enforcement agent, New York city sanitation  worker,  registered  nurse,
    17  licensed  practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or emer-
    18  gency medical service technician, he or she causes  physical  injury  to
    19  such  train  operator,  ticket  inspector,  conductor, signalperson, bus
    20  operator [or], station agent, station  customer  assistant,  any  person
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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