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Assembly Bill A9902

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to physical assault of a process server

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2011-A9902 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง120.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A3091
2015-2016: A1207, A6772

2011-A9902 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that physical assault of a process server is assault in the second degree.

2011-A9902 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9902

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 20, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to assault upon a process
  server

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

  Section  1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 13 to read as follows:
  13. WITH THE INTENT TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY TO A PERSON AUTHORIZED TO
SERVE PROCESS PURSUANT TO RULE TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED  THREE  OF  THE  CIVIL
PRACTICE LAW AND RULES, OR A SPECIAL PROCESS SERVER APPOINTED BY A COURT
IN  THE  STATE  OF NEW YORK, HE OR SHE CAUSES SUCH INJURY TO SUCH PERSON
WHILE THAT INDIVIDUAL IS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS OR HER  DUTIES  AS  A
PROCESS SERVER.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD15100-01-2

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