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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         9186--B
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    October 13, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW, KELLNER, TITUS, MARKEY, CAMARA, MILLMAN,
          M. MILLER, CASTRO, DenDEKKER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE,
          BENJAMIN,  BING,  HEASTIE,  TOWNS  --  read  once  and referred to the
          Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill

          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminalizing assaults on
          sanitation enforcement agents
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions 3 and 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law,
     2  as amended by chapter 45 of the laws of 2008, are  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  With  intent to prevent a peace officer, a police officer, sanita-
     5  tion enforcement agent, a firefighter, including a firefighter acting as
     6  a paramedic or emergency medical technician administering first  aid  in

     7  the  course  of  performance  of  duty as such firefighter, an emergency
     8  medical service paramedic or emergency medical  service  technician,  or
     9  medical  or related personnel in a hospital emergency department, a city
    10  marshal, a traffic enforcement officer  or  traffic  enforcement  agent,
    11  from  performing  a lawful duty, by means including releasing or failing
    12  to control an animal under circumstances  evincing  the  actor's  intent
    13  that  the  animal  obstruct  the  lawful activity of such peace officer,
    14  police officer, sanitation enforcement  agent,  firefighter,  paramedic,
    15  technician,   city  marshal,  traffic  enforcement  officer  or  traffic
    16  enforcement agent, he or she causes physical injury to such peace  offi-
    17  cer, police officer, sanitation enforcement agent, firefighter, paramed-
    18  ic,  technician  or medical or related personnel in a hospital emergency

 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14503-04-0
        A. 9186--B                          2
 
     1  department,  city  marshal,  traffic  enforcement  officer  or   traffic
     2  enforcement agent; or
     3    11.  With  intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
     4  inspector,  conductor,  signalperson,  bus  operator  or  station  agent
     5  employed by any transit agency, authority or company, public or private,
     6  whose  operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political
     7  subdivisions, a city marshal, a traffic enforcement officer [or],  traf-
     8  fic  enforcement agent or sanitation enforcement agent, he or she causes

     9  physical injury to such train  operator,  ticket  inspector,  conductor,
    10  signalperson,  bus  operator  or  station  agent,  city marshal, traffic
    11  enforcement  officer  [or],  traffic  enforcement  agent  or  sanitation
    12  enforcement  agent,  while  such employee is performing an assigned duty
    13  on, or directly related to, the operation of a train  or  bus,  or  such
    14  city  marshal,  traffic  enforcement  officer  [or], traffic enforcement
    15  agent or sanitation enforcement agent is performing an assigned duty.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.