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                                   1580
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. JONES, SIMON, PICHARDO, DAVILA, RAIA, LAWRENCE,
   BLANKENBUSH, MONTESANO, PALUMBO, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
   A.  ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF, STEC, THIELE -- read once and referred to  the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to expanding the offense of
   assault in the second degree to  include  the  infliction  of  serious
   physical injury in the course of committing hazing in the first degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 14 of section 120.05  of  the  penal  law,  as
 added  by chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdivi-
 sion 15 is added to read as follows:
   14. With intent to prevent or obstruct a process server, as defined in
 section eighty-nine-t of the general business  law,  from  performing  a
 lawful  duty  pursuant  to  article  three of the civil practice law and
 rules, or intentionally, as retaliation against such  a  process  server
 for  the  performance  of  the  process server's duties pursuant to such
 article, including by means of releasing or failing to control an animal
 evincing the actor's intent that the  animal  prevent  or  obstruct  the
 lawful  duty of the process server or as retaliation against the process
 server, he or she causes physical injury to such process server[.]; OR
   15. IN THE COURSE OF AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CRIME
 OF HAZING IN THE FIRST DEGREE, AS DEFINED  IN  SECTION  120.16  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE, HE OR SHE, OR ANOTHER PARTICIPANT IF THERE BE ANY, CAUSES SERI-
 OUS PHYSICAL INJURY TO ANOTHER PERSON.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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