Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a police officer where a person causes or attempts to cause such police officer to come into contact with bottles, rocks, flammable liquids, hazardous or dangerous substances or objects, blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva or the contents of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing, intentionally expectorating or expelling such fluid or material.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3208
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. ORTT, AKSHAR, BORRELLO, BOYLE, GALLIVAN, GRIFFO,
HELMING, JORDAN, LANZA, MARTUCCI, MATTERA, OBERACKER, O'MARA, PALUMBO,
RATH, RITCHIE, SERINO, STEC, TEDISCO, WEIK -- 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 aggravated harassment of a
police officer
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.
4 A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a police officer when,
5 with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a person whom he or she
6 knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer, he or she causes
7 or attempts to cause such police officer to come into contact with
8 bottles, rocks, flammable liquids, hazardous or dangerous substances or
9 objects, blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva or the contents of a
10 toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing, intentionally expectorating or expel-
11 ling such fluid or material.
12 The term "police officer" shall mean a police officer as defined in
13 subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
14 Aggravated harassment of a police officer is a class D felony.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05394-02-1
