Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to a station cleaner or terminal cleaner employed by a mass transit company, while such cleaner is engaged in such employment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5307
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 11, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, ESPAILLAT, PHEFFER -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, FARRELL, PERRY -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assaults upon station
cleaners and terminal cleaners
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 45 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
5 inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator [or], station agent,
6 station cleaner or terminal cleaner employed by any transit agency,
7 authority or company, public or private, whose operation is authorized
8 by New York state or any of its political subdivisions, a city marshal,
9 a traffic enforcement officer or traffic enforcement agent, he or she
10 causes physical injury to such train operator, ticket inspector, conduc-
11 tor, signalperson, bus operator [or], station agent, station cleaner,
12 terminal cleaner, city marshal, traffic enforcement officer or traffic
13 enforcement agent while such employee is performing an assigned duty on,
14 or directly related to, the operation of a train or bus, or such city
15 marshal, traffic enforcement officer or traffic enforcement agent is
16 performing an assigned duty.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
18 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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