Assembly Bill A8395

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes the class E felony of official interference with transportation

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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-A8395 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6229
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §195.03, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6708
2015-2016: S4584
2019-2020: S1775
2021-2022: S4634
2023-2024: S4090
2025-2026: S3717

2017-A8395 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the class E felony of official interference with transportation.

2017-A8395 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8395
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the offense
   of official interference with transportation
 
   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 195.03 to
 read as follows:
 § 195.03 OFFICIAL INTERFERENCE WITH TRANSPORTATION.
   A PUBLIC SERVANT IS GUILTY OF OFFICIAL INTERFERENCE  WITH  TRANSPORTA-
 TION  WHEN,  WITH INTENT TO IMPEDE, HAMPER, STALL OR OTHERWISE INTERFERE
 WITH THE ORDINARY PROGRESS OF ANY  FORM  OF  TRANSPORTATION  ON,  IN  OR
 THROUGH  THE ROADWAYS, HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, RAILWAYS, WATERWAYS OR AIRWAYS
 OF THE STATE, HE OR SHE:
   1. COMMITS AN ACT CONSTITUTING AN UNAUTHORIZED EXERCISE OF HIS OR  HER
 OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS, KNOWING THAT SUCH ACT IS UNAUTHORIZED; OR
   2.  KNOWINGLY  REFRAINS  FROM PERFORMING AN OFFICIAL DUTY IMPOSED UPON
 HIM OR HER, OR IS CLEARLY INHERENT IN THE NATURE OF HIS  OR  HER  PUBLIC
 OFFICE.
   OFFICIAL INTERFERENCE WITH TRANSPORTATION 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.
                                                            LBD02557-01-7

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