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Assembly Bill A6875

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Creates new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant

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2013-A6875 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4447
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง120.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S5242
2011-2012: S4127
2015-2016: A4093, S1827
2017-2018: A1915, S1747

2013-A6875 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant; establishes that assaulting such a retired police officer with intent to seek retribution is assault in the first degree.

2013-A6875 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6875

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 23, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to assaulting a retired
  police officer

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  120.10  of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new  subdi-
vision 5 is added to read as follows:
  4.  In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted
commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he, or  another
participant  if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a person
other than one of the participants[.] ; OR
  5. WITH INTENT TO CAUSE SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY TO A SPECIFIC  RETIRED
POLICE  OFFICER,  AS  POLICE  OFFICER IS DEFINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
THIRTY-FOUR OF SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL  PROCEDURE  LAW,  DUE  TO  A
BELIEF OR PERCEPTION REGARDING SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER'S INVOLVEMENT
IN  A  PREVIOUS  ARREST  OF  SUCH PERSON WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY, HE OR SHE
CAUSES SUCH INJURY TO SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER OR TO A THIRD PERSON.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07416-02-3

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