Senate Bill S4447

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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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S4447 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6875
Current Committee:
Senate 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: S1827, A4093
2017-2018: S1747, A1915

2013-S4447 (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-S4447 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S4447 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4447

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 1, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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  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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