STATE OF NEW YORK
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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment of
peace officers or police officers
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 or peace officer.
4 A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a police officer or
5 peace officer when, with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm
6 a person whom he or she knows or reasonably should know to be a police
7 officer or peace officer engaged in the course of performing his or her
8 official duties, he or she strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects
9 such person to physical contact.
10 Aggravated harassment of a police officer or peace officer is a class
11 E felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 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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