 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           522
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. JONES, COLTON, LAVINE, MONTESANO, BYRNE, McDO-
          NOUGH, BLANKENBUSH, J. RIVERA, MIKULIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of
          A.   DICKENS, FRIEND, LUPARDO, THIELE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment of a
          police officer
 
          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 240.33 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.33 Aggravated harassment of a police officer.
     4    A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a police officer  when,
     5  with  intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a person whom he or she
     6  knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer, he or she causes
     7  or attempts to cause such police  officer  to  come  into  contact  with
     8  blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by
     9  throwing, tossing or expelling such such fluid or material.
    10    The  term  "police  officer" shall mean a police officer as defined in
    11  subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
    12    Aggravated harassment of a police officer is a class E felony.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05394-01-1
Relates to aggravated harassment of a police officer

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