Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a police officer where a person causes such police officer to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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694
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment of a
police officer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.33 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 240.33 Aggravated harassment of a police officer.
4 A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a police officer when,
5 with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a person whom he or she
6 knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer, he or she causes
7 or attempts to cause such police officer to come into contact with
8 blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by
9 throwing, tossing or expelling such such fluid or material.
10 The term "police officer" shall mean a police officer as defined in
11 subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
12 Aggravated harassment of a police officer is a class E felony.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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