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Assembly Bill A6618

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of aggravated assault upon a railroad clerk or token booth attendant

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2009-A6618 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง120.09, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A6773

2009-A6618 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a railroad clerk or token booth attendant, a class B felony, when, with intent to cause serious physical injury to a person whom he knows to be a railroad clerk or token booth attendant engaged in the course of performing his official duties, he causes such injury by means of a deadly weapon when such weapon is a firearm.

2009-A6618 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6618

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 6, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. COOK, ORTIZ, PHEFFER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
  of A. ALFANO, COLTON, GALEF, HOOPER, V. LOPEZ, SCARBOROUGH, WRIGHT  --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
  aggravated assault upon a railroad clerk or token booth attendant

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.09 to
read as follows:
S 120.09 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT UPON A RAILROAD CLERK OR TOKEN BOOTH ATTEND-
           ANT.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT  UPON  A  RAILROAD  CLERK  OR
TOKEN BOOTH ATTENDANT WHEN, WITH INTENT TO CAUSE SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY
TO  A  PERSON  WHOM  HE KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A RAILROAD
CLERK OR TOKEN BOOTH ATTENDANT ENGAGED IN THE COURSE OF  PERFORMING  HIS
OFFICIAL  DUTIES, HE CAUSES SUCH INJURY BY MEANS OF A DEADLY WEAPON WHEN
SUCH WEAPON IS A FIREARM.
  AGGRAVATED ASSAULT UPON A RAILROAD CLERK OR TOKEN BOOTH ATTENDANT IS A
CLASS B FELONY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  next  succeeding
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.
                                                           LBD00168-01-9

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