 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1876
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 11, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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 establishing the crime  of
          aggravated resisting arrest
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 205.35  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 205.35 Aggravated resisting arrest.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated  resisting arrest when he or she
     5  commits the crime of resisting arrest pursuant to section 205.30 and has
     6  previously been convicted of such crime two prior  times  within  a  ten
     7  year period.
     8    Aggravated resisting arrest is a class E felony.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01008-01-7
Establishes the crime of aggravated resisting arrest

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