 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2103
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 240.34 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.34 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 such
     6  person knows or reasonably should know to  be  a  police  officer,  such
     7  person  causes  or  attempts  to  cause such police officer to come into
     8  contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the  contents  of  a
     9  toilet  bowl, by throwing, tossing or expelling such such fluid or mate-
    10  rial.
    11    The term "police officer" shall mean a police officer  as  defined  in
    12  subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
    13    Aggravated harassment of a police officer is a class E felony.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03075-01-5
Relates to aggravated harassment of a police officer

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