 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4209
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 31, 2025
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        Introduced by 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.
                                                                   LBD03345-01-5
Relates to aggravated resisting arrest

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