Senate Bill S8539

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Categorizes the assault of certain employees of the New York city department of buildings or the New York city department of housing preservation and development as a class D felony

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

  • 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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2023-S8539 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8177
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.05, Pen L

2023-S8539 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Categorizes the assault of certain employees of the New York city department of buildings or the New York city department of housing preservation and development as a class D felony.

2023-S8539 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8539 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8539
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 12, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to categorizing  the  assault
   of  certain  employees of the New York city department of buildings or
   the New York city department of housing preservation  and  development
   as a class D  felony

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended  by  adding  two
 new subdivisions 3-d and 11-d to read as follows:
   3-D.  WITH  INTENT TO PREVENT AN EMPLOYEE OF THE NEW YORK CITY DEPART-
 MENT OF BUILDINGS OR THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF  HOUSING  PRESERVA-
 TION  AND  DEVELOPMENT  IN  THE  TITLES  CONSTRUCTION INSPECTOR, HOUSING
 INSPECTOR, ASSOCIATE HOUSING INSPECTOR LEVEL I AND  LEVEL  II,  ELEVATOR
 INSPECTOR,  ASSOCIATE  ELEVATOR  INSPECTOR,  PLUMBING  INSPECTOR, BOILER
 INSPECTOR, LOW-PRESSURE BOILER INSPECTOR, HOIST AND  RIGGING  INSPECTOR,
 OR  INSPECTOR MULTI-DISCIPLINE, FROM PERFORMING HIS OR HER LAWFUL DUTIES
 HE OR SHE CAUSES PHYSICAL INJURY TO SUCH EMPLOYEE; OR
   11-D. WITH INTENT TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY TO AN EMPLOYEE OF  THE  NEW
 YORK  CITY  DEPARTMENT  OF  BUILDINGS OR THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF
 HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE TITLES CONSTRUCTION  INSPEC-
 TOR,  HOUSING  INSPECTOR,  ASSOCIATE HOUSING INSPECTOR LEVEL I AND LEVEL
 II, ELEVATOR INSPECTOR, ASSOCIATE ELEVATOR INSPECTOR,  PLUMBING  INSPEC-
 TOR,  BOILER INSPECTOR, LOW-PRESSURE BOILER INSPECTOR, HOIST AND RIGGING
 INSPECTOR, OR INSPECTOR MULTI-DISCIPLINE, PERFORMING HIS OR  HER  LAWFUL
 DUTIES HE OR SHE CAUSES PHYSICAL INJURY TO SUCH EMPLOYEE; OR
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13428-01-3

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