Establishes that a person is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree when he or she causes the death of a peace officer, police officer, firefighter or EMS paramedic or technician.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to causing the death of a
peace officer, police officer, firefighter or emergency medical
service paramedic or technician
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known as and may be cited as the "Police
2 Officer Vincent Guidice Memorial Act."
3 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 125.20 of the penal law, as added by
4 chapter 477 of the laws of 1990, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is
5 added to read as follows:
6 4. Being eighteen years old or more and with intent to cause physical
7 injury to a person less than eleven years old, the defendant recklessly
8 engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of serious physical injury
9 to such person and thereby causes the death of such person[.]; or
10 5. With intent to prevent a peace officer, a police officer, a fire-
11 fighter, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency
12 medical technician administering first aid in the course of performance
13 of duty as such firefighter, an emergency medical service paramedic or
14 emergency medical service technician, from performing a lawful duty, he
15 or she causes the death of such peace officer, police officer, fire-
16 fighter, paramedic or technician.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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