S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5472
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 10, 2023
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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 OR SHE knows or reasonably should know to be a police
officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of performing his OR
HER official duties, he OR SHE causes such injury [by means of a deadly
weapon or dangerous instrument].
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.
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