Assembly Bill A10522

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to aggravated harassment of a police officer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A10522 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7679
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §240.33, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A953, S312
2021-2022: A522, S3208
2023-2024: A1427, S694

2017-A10522 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a police officer where a person causes such police officer to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material.

2017-A10522 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10522
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 4, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- 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:
 
   Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.33 to
 read as follows:
 § 240.33 AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER  WHEN,
 WITH  INTENT TO HARASS, ANNOY, THREATEN OR ALARM A PERSON WHOM HE OR SHE
 KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POLICE OFFICER, HE OR SHE CAUSES
 OR ATTEMPTS TO CAUSE SUCH POLICE  OFFICER  TO  COME  INTO  CONTACT  WITH
 BLOOD, SEMINAL FLUID, URINE, FECES, OR THE CONTENTS OF A TOILET BOWL, BY
 THROWING, TOSSING OR EXPELLING SUCH SUCH FLUID OR MATERIAL.
   THE  TERM  "POLICE  OFFICER" SHALL MEAN A POLICE OFFICER AS DEFINED IN
 SUBDIVISION THIRTY-FOUR OF SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW.
   AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14669-01-8

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