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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         2251--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 22, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  LARKIN, ADDABBO, GRIFFO, O'MARA -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Codes  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee on Codes in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to elevating an assault of a
          utility worker to the class D felony of assault in the second degree
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  120.05  of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 472 of the laws  of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  With intent to prevent a peace officer, a police officer, prosecu-
     5  tor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal
     6  procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health
     7  sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation  enforce-
     8  ment  agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefighter, including a
     9  firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical technician admin-
    10  istering first aid in the course of performance of duty  as  such  fire-
    11  fighter,  an  emergency  medical  service paramedic or emergency medical
    12  service technician, or medical or related personnel in a hospital  emer-
    13  gency  department,  a  city  marshal,  a school crossing guard appointed
    14  pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law,  a
    15  traffic  enforcement officer [or], traffic enforcement agent or employee
    16  of any entity governed by the  public  service  law  in  the  course  of
    17  performing an essential service, from performing a lawful duty, by means
    18  including  releasing or failing to control an animal under circumstances
    19  evincing the actor's intent that the animal obstruct the lawful activity
    20  of such peace officer, police officer, prosecutor as defined in subdivi-
    21  sion thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal  procedure  law,  regis-
    22  tered  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse, public health sanitarian, New
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04667-02-6
        S. 2251--A                          2
 
     1  York city public health sanitarian, sanitation  enforcement  agent,  New
     2  York  city  sanitation  worker, firefighter, paramedic, technician, city
     3  marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred
     4  eight-a  of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement officer [or],
     5  traffic enforcement agent or employee  of  an  entity  governed  by  the
     6  public service law, he or she causes physical injury to such peace offi-
     7  cer,  police officer, prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of
     8  section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, registered  nurse,  licensed
     9  practical  nurse,  public health sanitarian, New York city public health
    10  sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation work-
    11  er, firefighter, paramedic, technician or medical or  related  personnel
    12  in a hospital emergency department, city marshal, school crossing guard,
    13  traffic  enforcement officer [or], traffic enforcement agent or employee
    14  of an entity governed by the public service law; or
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    16  manner as chapter 472 of the laws of 2015 takes effect.