Establishes the crime of aggravated resisting arrest as where a person intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or peace officer from effecting an authorized arrest of such person or another person through the use of physical force, where such authorized arrest is for a crime which is a felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4209
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated resisting
arrest
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 205.35 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 205.35 Aggravated resisting arrest.
4 A person is guilty of aggravated resisting arrest when such person
5 intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or peace
6 officer from effecting an authorized arrest of such person or another
7 person through the use of physical force, where such authorized arrest
8 is for a crime which is a felony.
9 Aggravated resisting arrest is a class D felony.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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