S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 28, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cook) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assaults upon certain
employees of a transit agency or authority
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as sepa-
rately 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, STATION CUSTOMER ASSISTANT; PERSON WHOSE
OFFICIAL DUTIES INCLUDE THE SALE OR COLLECTION OF TICKETS, PASSES,
VOUCHERS, OR OTHER REVENUE PAYMENT MEDIA FOR USE ON A TRAIN OR BUS OR
THE COLLECTION OR HANDLING OF REVENUES THEREFROM; A PERSON WHOSE OFFI-
CIAL DUTIES INCLUDE THE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, INSPECTION, TROUBLESHOOT-
ING, TESTING OR CLEANING OF BUSES, A TRANSIT SIGNAL SYSTEM, ELEVATED OR
UNDERGROUND SUBWAY TRACKS, TRANSIT STATION STRUCTURE, INCLUDING FARE
EQUIPMENT, ESCALATORS, ELEVATORS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO
PASSENGER SERVICE, COMMUTER RAIL TRACKS OR STATIONS, TRAIN YARD, REVENUE
TRAIN IN PASSENGER SERVICE, OR A TRAIN OR BUS STATION OR TERMINAL; OR A
SUPERVISOR OF SUCH PERSONNEL, employed by any transit OR COMMUTER RAIL
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 enforcement 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 sani-
tarian, New York city public health sanitarian, registered nurse,
licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or emer-
gency medical service technician, he or she causes physical injury to
such train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus
operator, station agent, station cleaner [or], terminal cleaner, STATION
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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CUSTOMER ASSISTANT; PERSON WHOSE OFFICIAL DUTIES INCLUDE THE SALE OR
COLLECTION OF TICKETS, PASSES, VOUCHERS OR OTHER REVENUE PAYMENT MEDIA
FOR USE ON A TRAIN OR BUS OR THE COLLECTION OR HANDLING OF REVENUES
THEREFROM; A PERSON WHOSE OFFICIAL DUTIES INCLUDE THE MAINTENANCE,
REPAIR, INSPECTION, TROUBLESHOOTING, TESTING OR CLEANING OF BUSES, A
TRANSIT SIGNAL SYSTEM, ELEVATED OR UNDERGROUND SUBWAY TRACKS, TRANSIT
STATION STRUCTURE, INCLUDING FARE EQUIPMENT, ESCALATORS, ELEVATORS AND
OTHER EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO PASSENGER SERVICE, COMMUTER RAIL TRACKS OR
STATIONS, TRAIN YARD, REVENUE TRAIN IN PASSENGER SERVICE, OR A TRAIN OR
BUS STATION OR TERMINAL; OR A SUPERVISOR OF SUCH PERSONNEL, city
marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred
eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement officer, traf-
fic 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 sanita-
tion worker, emergency medical service paramedic, or emergency medical
service technician, 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, ASSISTING CUSTOM-
ERS, THE SALE OR COLLECTION OF TICKETS, PASSES, VOUCHERS, OR OTHER
REVENUE MEDIA FOR USE ON A TRAIN OR BUS, OR MAINTENANCE OR CLEANING OF A
TRAIN, A BUS, OR BUS STATION OR TERMINAL, SIGNAL SYSTEM, ELEVATED OR
UNDERGROUND SUBWAY TRACKS, TRANSIT STATION STRUCTURE, INCLUDING FARE
EQUIPMENT, ESCALATORS, ELEVATORS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO
PASSENGER SERVICE, COMMUTER RAIL TRACKS OR STATIONS, TRAIN YARD OR
REVENUE TRAIN IN PASSENGER SERVICE, or such city marshal, school cross-
ing 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, sani-
tation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, emergency
medical service paramedic, or emergency medical service technician is
performing an assigned duty; or
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.