 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3208
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT,  AKSHAR, BORRELLO, BOYLE, GALLIVAN, GRIFFO,
          HELMING, JORDAN, LANZA, MARTUCCI, MATTERA, OBERACKER, O'MARA, PALUMBO,
          RATH, RITCHIE, SERINO, STEC, TEDISCO, WEIK -- 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 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  bottles, rocks, flammable liquids, hazardous or dangerous substances  or
     9  objects, blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva or the contents of a
    10  toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing, intentionally expectorating or expel-
    11  ling such fluid or material.
    12    The  term  "police  officer" shall mean a police officer as defined in
    13  subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
    14    Aggravated harassment of a police officer is a class D felony.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05394-02-1
Relates to aggravated harassment of a police officer

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