STATE OF NEW YORK
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6808
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 2, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault on a member of the
military or reserves
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 22 to read as follows:
3 22. "Member of the military or reserves" means (a) a member of the
4 United States army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard, army national
5 guard, air national guard and/or reserves thereof or (b) a member of the
6 New York guard or the New York naval militia.
7 § 2. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as added by chapter 632 of the
8 laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
9 § 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, fireman, [or] emer-
10 gency medical services professional or a member of the mili-
11 tary or reserves.
12 A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer,
13 fireman, [or] emergency medical services professional or a member of the
14 military or reserves when, with intent to prevent a peace officer,
15 police officer, a fireman, including a fireman acting as a paramedic or
16 emergency medical technician administering first aid in the course of
17 performance of duty as such fireman, [or] an emergency medical service
18 paramedic or emergency medical service technician, or a member of the
19 military or reserves, from performing a lawful duty, he causes serious
20 physical injury to such peace officer, police officer, fireman, paramed-
21 ic, [or] technician or a member of the military or reserves.
22 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, fireman, [or] emergency
23 medical services professional or a member of the military or reserves is
24 a class C felony.
25 § 3. 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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