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Assembly Bill A10892

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer

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2017-A10892 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.11, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10488
2019-2020: A6402
2021-2022: A4724
2023-2024: A5472
2025-2026: A3274

2017-A10892 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.

2017-A10892 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10892
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 25, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the  crime  of  aggravated
   assault upon a police officer or a peace officer
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  283
 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
 § 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.
   A  person  is  guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a
 peace officer when, with intent to cause serious physical  injury  to  a
 person whom he knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or
 a peace officer engaged in the course of performing his official duties,
 he  causes such injury [by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instru-
 ment].
   Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
 B felony.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD05702-01-7

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