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                                   2880
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. KIM, BRAUNSTEIN, MOSLEY, M. G. MILLER, JAFFEE,
   BENEDETTO, COLTON, BRONSON, TITUS,  WEPRIN,  DenDEKKER,  SEPULVEDA  --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, COOK, GOTTFRIED, TITONE -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of assault of an
   operator of a for-hire vehicle
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "taxi driv-
 er protection act".
   § 2. Section 60.07 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
 vision 3 to read as follows:
   3.  EVERY  FOR-HIRE  VEHICLE  MAY  POST A SIGN ON THE INTERIOR OF SUCH
 VEHICLE STATING IN NOT LESS THAN SIXTEEN POINT  PRINT  THAT  "ATTENTION:
 ASSAULTING  A  TAXI  DRIVER  IS PUNISHABLE BY UP TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN
 PRISON".
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  2880--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. KIM, BRAUNSTEIN, MOSLEY, M. G. MILLER, JAFFEE,
   BENEDETTO, COLTON, BRONSON, TITUS,  WEPRIN,  DenDEKKER,  SEPULVEDA  --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, COOK, GOTTFRIED, TITONE -- read
   once  and  referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged,
   bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
   committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of assault of an
   operator of a for-hire vehicle
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "taxi driv-
 er protection act".
   § 2. Section 60.07 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
 vision 3 to read as follows:
   3.  EVERY  FOR-HIRE  VEHICLE SHALL POST A SIGN ON THE INTERIOR OF SUCH
 VEHICLE STATING IN NOT LESS THAN SIXTEEN POINT  PRINT  THAT  "ATTENTION:
 ASSAULTING  A  TAXI  DRIVER  IS PUNISHABLE BY UP TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN
 PRISON".
   § 3. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as  separately
 amended  by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read
 as follows:
   11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train  operator,  ticket
 inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station
 cleaner or terminal cleaner employed by any transit agency, authority or
 company,  public  or  private, whose operation is authorized by New York
 state or any of its political subdivisions, a  city  marshal,  a  school
 crossing  guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the
 general municipal law, a traffic enforcement officer,  traffic  enforce-
 ment  agent,  prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section
 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, sanitation  enforcement  agent,  New
 York  city  sanitation  worker,  public health sanitarian, New York city

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

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 public health sanitarian, registered nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,
 emergency  medical  service  paramedic,  [or]  emergency medical service
 technician OR FOR-HIRE DRIVER, he or she causes physical injury to  such
 train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator,
 station agent, station cleaner or terminal cleaner, city marshal, school
 crossing  guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the
 general municipal law, traffic enforcement officer, traffic  enforcement
 agent,  prosecutor  as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20
 of the criminal procedure  law,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical
 nurse, public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian,
 sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, emergency
 medical  service paramedic, [or] emergency medical service technician OR
 FOR-HIRE DRIVER, while such employee is performing an assigned duty  on,
 or  directly  related to, the operation of a train or bus, including the
 cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal, or  such  city  marshal,
 school  crossing guard, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement
 agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of  section  1.20
 of  the  criminal  procedure  law,  registered nurse, licensed practical
 nurse, public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian,
 sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, emergency
 medical service paramedic, [or] emergency medical service technician  OR
 FOR-HIRE DRIVER is performing an assigned duty; or
   §  4.  This  act  shall take effect immediately; provided however that
 section three of this act shall take effect on  the  first  of  November
 next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.