Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of police officers, peace officers, court officers, emergency medical technicians or paramedics; provides that such crime is a class E felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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464
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
aggravated harassment of police officers, peace officers, court offi-
cers, emergency medical technicians or paramedics
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, peace officer, court
4 officer, emergency medical technician or paramedic.
5 A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a police officer, peace
6 officer, court officer, emergency medical technician or paramedic when
7 with intent to harass, annoy, threaten, harm or alarm a person whom he
8 or she knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer, a peace
9 officer, court officer, emergency medical technician or paramedic
10 engaged in the course of performing his or her official duties, he or
11 she causes the police officer, peace officer, court officer, emergency
12 medical technician or paramedic to come into contact with blood, seminal
13 fluid, saliva, urine or feces, by throwing, tossing or expelling such
14 fluid or material.
15 Aggravated harassment of a police officer, peace officer, court offi-
16 cer, emergency medical technician or paramedic is a class E felony.
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.
LBD00787-01-1
