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Assembly Bill A10917

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to aggravated resisting arrest

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2019-A10917 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §205.35, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A5237
2023-2024: A3140
2025-2026: A4209

2019-A10917 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of aggravated resisting arrest as where a person intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or peace officer from effecting an authorized arrest of such person or another person through the use of physical force, where such authorized arrest is for a crime which is a felony.

2019-A10917 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10917
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Reilly) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  aggravated  resisting
   arrest
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 205.35  to
 read as follows:
 § 205.35 AGGRAVATED RESISTING ARREST.
   A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF AGGRAVATED RESISTING ARREST WHEN SUCH PERSON
 INTENTIONALLY PREVENTS OR ATTEMPTS TO PREVENT A POLICE OFFICER OR  PEACE
 OFFICER  FROM  EFFECTING  AN AUTHORIZED ARREST OF SUCH PERSON OR ANOTHER
 PERSON THROUGH THE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE, WHERE SUCH  AUTHORIZED  ARREST
 IS FOR A CRIME WHICH IS A FELONY.
   AGGRAVATED RESISTING ARREST IS A CLASS D FELONY.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16955-01-0

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