Senate Bill S6618

                             
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                                   6618
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 1, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  assaults  upon  certain
   employees of a transit agency or authority
 
   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
 amended  by  chapter  233  of  the  laws  of 2022, 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,  terminal cleaner, TRAFFIC CHECKER, station customer assistant;
 person whose official duties include the sale or collection of  tickets,
 passes,  vouchers,  or other revenue payment media for use on a train or
 bus or the collection or handling of revenues therefrom; a person  whose
 official  duties  include  the maintenance, repair, inspection, trouble-
 shooting, testing  or  cleaning  of  buses,  a  transit  signal  system,
 elevated  or  underground  subway  tracks,  transit  station  structure,
 including fare equipment,  escalators,  elevators  and  other  equipment
 necessary  to passenger service, commuter rail tracks or stations, train
 yard, revenue train in passenger service, or a train or bus  station  or
 terminal;  or a supervisor of such personnel, employed by any transit or
 commuter rail agency, authority or company,  public  or  private,  whose
 operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdi-
 visions,  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  sanitarian,  New  York city public health sanitarian, registered
 nurse, licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 emergency medical service technician, he or she causes  physical  injury
 to  such  train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus
 operator, station agent,  station  cleaner,  terminal  cleaner,  TRAFFIC
 CHECKER,  station  customer  assistant;  person  whose  official  duties
 include the sale or collection of tickets,  passes,  vouchers  or  other
 revenue  payment  media  for  use on a train or bus or the collection or
 handling of revenues therefrom; a person whose official  duties  include
 the  maintenance, repair, inspection, troubleshooting, testing or clean-
 ing of buses, a transit signal system, elevated  or  underground  subway
 tracks, transit station structure, including fare equipment, escalators,
 elevators  and  other equipment necessary to passenger service, commuter
 rail tracks or stations, train yard, revenue train in passenger service,
 or a train or bus station or terminal; or a supervisor of  such  person-
 nel,  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 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 operation of a train or
 bus, cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal,  assisting  custom-
 ers,  the  sale  or  collection  of  tickets, passes, vouchers, or other
 revenue media for use on a train or bus, or maintenance or cleaning of a
 train, a bus, or bus station or terminal,  signal  system,  elevated  or
 underground  subway  tracks,  transit  station structure, including fare
 equipment,  escalators,  elevators  and  other  equipment  necessary  to
 passenger  service,  commuter  rail  tracks  or  stations, train yard or
 revenue train in passenger service, or such city marshal, school  cross-
 ing  guard,  traffic  enforcement  officer,  traffic  enforcement agent,
 prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20  of  the
 criminal  procedure  law,  registered  nurse,  licensed practical nurse,
 public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian,  sani-
 tation  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.