Categorizes the assault of certain employees of the New York city department of buildings or the New York city department of housing preservation and development as a class D felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5110--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SCARCELLA-SPANTON, LIU -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to categorizing the assault
of certain employees of the New York city department of buildings or
the New York city department of housing preservation and development
as a class D felony
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 four
2 new subdivisions 3-d, 3-e, 11-d and 11-e to read as follows:
3 3-d. With intent to prevent an employee of the New York city depart-
4 ment of housing preservation and development in an inspectorial, techni-
5 cal, investigative, or social service/community title, including labor
6 compliance officers engaged in development or construction projects,
7 from performing their lawful duties such person causes physical injury
8 to such employee; or
9 3-e. With intent to prevent an employee of the New York city depart-
10 ment of buildings in an inspectorial, technical, investigative, or
11 community title from performing their lawful duties such person causes
12 physical injury to such employee; or
13 11-d. With intent to cause physical injury to an employee of the New
14 York city department of housing preservation and development in an
15 inspectorial, technical, investigative, or social service/community
16 title performing their lawful duties such person causes physical injury
17 to such employee; or
18 11-e. With intent to cause physical injury to an employee of the New
19 York city department of buildings in an inspectorial, technical, inves-
20 tigative, or community title performing their lawful duties such person
21 causes physical injury to such employee; or
22 § 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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