Bill Text: NY S08157 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to physical assault of a process server.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08157 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S08157-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8157
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 17, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  assault  upon  a  process
          server
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 14 to read as follows:
     3    14. With the intent to cause physical injury to a person authorized to
     4  serve  process  pursuant  to  rule twenty-one hundred three of the civil
     5  practice law and rules, or a special process server appointed by a court
     6  in the state of New York, he or she causes such injury  to  such  person
     7  while  that  individual  is in the performance of his or her duties as a
     8  process server.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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