S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6729
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 1, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault on caseworkers
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
follows:
11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator or station agent
employed by any transit agency, authority or company, public or private,
whose operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political
subdivisions, a city marshal, a school crossing guard appointed pursuant
to section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, a traffic
enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in
subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law,
sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, CASEWORK-
ER, registered nurse or licensed practical nurse he or she causes phys-
ical injury to such train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signal-
person, bus operator or station agent, city marshal, school crossing
guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general
municipal law, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent,
prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the
criminal procedure law, CASEWORKER, registered nurse, licensed practical
nurse, sanitation enforcement agent or New York city sanitation worker,
while such employee is performing an assigned duty on, or directly
related to, the operation of a train or bus, or such city marshal,
school crossing guard, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement
agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20
of the criminal procedure law, CASEWORKER, registered nurse, licensed
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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practical nurse, sanitation enforcement agent or New York city sanita-
tion worker, is performing an assigned duty.
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.