 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10917
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     August 17, 2020
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        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:
 
     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 such person
     5  intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or  peace
     6  officer  from  effecting  an authorized arrest of such person or another
     7  person through the use of physical force, where such  authorized  arrest
     8  is for a crime which is a felony.
     9    Aggravated resisting arrest is a class D felony.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16955-01-0
Relates to aggravated resisting arrest

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