Bill Text: NY S02991 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to a process server to obstruct from performing his or her lawful duty, or as retaliation against the process server for performing his or her lawful duty.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2016-08-19 - SIGNED CHAP.268 [S02991 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02991-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2991--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 2, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, AVELLA, FLANAGAN, FUNKE, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord- ance 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 assaults upon process servers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 10, 11, 12 and 13 of section 120.05 of the 2 penal law, subdivision 10 as added by chapter 181 of the laws of 2000, 3 subdivision 11 as separately amended by chapters 472 and 487 of the laws 4 of 2015, subdivision 12 as added by chapter 68 of the laws of 2008 and 5 subdivision 13 as added by chapter 477 of the laws of 2015, are amended 6 and a new subdivision 14 is added to read as follows: 7 10. Acting at a place the person knows, or reasonably should know, is 8 on school grounds and with intent to cause physical injury, he or she: 9 (a) causes such injury to an employee of a school or public school 10 district; or 11 (b) not being a student of such school or public school district, 12 causes physical injury to another, and such other person is a student of 13 such school who is attending or present for educational purposes. For 14 purposes of this subdivision the term "school grounds" shall have the 15 meaning set forth in subdivision fourteen of section 220.00 of this 16 chapter[.]; or 17 11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket 18 inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator or station agent 19 employed by any transit agency, authority or company, public or private, 20 whose operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political 21 subdivisions, a city marshal, a school crossing guard appointed pursuant 22 to section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, a traffic EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03082-02-6
