STATE OF NEW YORK
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5598
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 18, 2015
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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 inciting violence against
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 240.12 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 240.12 Inciting violence against a police officer.
4 A person is guilty of inciting violence against a police officer when,
5 with the intention of inciting or producing imminent violence against a
6 police officer, he or she advocates violence against one or more police
7 officers that is likely to incite or produce such violence.
8 Inciting violence against a police officer is a class D felony.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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