Assembly Bill A6598

                            
 
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                                   6598
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 9, 2017
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 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 assault in the second
   degree upon a supervisory member of a transit system
 
   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 OR SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL 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, public health  sani-
 tarian,  New  York  city  public  health  sanitarian,  registered nurse,
 licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or  emer-
 gency  medical  service  technician, he or she causes physical injury to
 such train operator,  ticket  inspector,  conductor,  signalperson,  bus
 operator,  station  agent,  station  cleaner  [or], terminal cleaner, OR
 SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL, 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 proce-
 dure  law,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical nurse, public health
 sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation  enforce-
 ment  agent,  New York city sanitation worker, emergency medical service
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD04238-01-7

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 paramedic, or emergency medical service technician, while such  employee
 is performing an assigned duty on, or directly related to, the operation
 of  a  train or bus, including the cleaning of a train or bus station or
 terminal,  or such city marshal, school crossing guard, traffic enforce-
 ment officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdi-
 vision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law,  regis-
 tered  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 ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.