 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3905
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 30, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. GRAF, MONTESANO, GIGLIO, LAWRENCE, PALUMBO, LUPI-
          NACCI,  CROUCH,  GARBARINO,  RA,  McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, RAIA, SALADINO,
          BUTLER, MURRAY, COLTON, BRABENEC, LALOR, PALMESANO --  Multi-Sponsored
          by  --  M. of A.  BARCLAY, LOPEZ, MAGEE, McLAUGHLIN, OAKS -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault on a police  offi-
          cer
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. With intent to cause physical injury to a person whom he knows or
     4  reasonably  should  know  to  be a police officer or a peace officer, he
     5  causes physical injury to such police officer or peace officer; or
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
     7  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05708-01-7
Relates to an assault on a police officer

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