S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6391
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 6, 2017
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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 sepa-
rately amended by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016, is amended
to read as follows:
11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station
cleaner or terminal cleaner 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 enforce-
ment 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, public health sanitarian, New York city
public health sanitarian, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse,
emergency medical service paramedic, or emergency medical service tech-
nician, he or she causes physical injury to such train operator, ticket
inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station
cleaner or terminal cleaner, city marshal, school crossing guard
appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general munici-
pal law, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, prose-
cutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the crimi-
nal procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public
health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation
enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, emergency medical
service paramedic, or emergency medical service technician, while such
employee is performing an assigned duty on, or directly related to, the
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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operation of a train or bus, including the cleaning of a train or bus
station or terminal, or such city marshal, school crossing guard, traf-
fic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as
defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal proce-
dure law, CASEWORKER, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public
health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation
enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, emergency medical
service paramedic, or emergency medical service technician is performing
an assigned duty; or
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.