Bill Text: NY A09083 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a railroad clerk or token booth attendant, a class B felony, when, with intent to cause serious physical injury to a person whom he knows to be a railroad clerk or token booth attendant engaged in the course of performing his official duties, he causes such injury by means of a deadly weapon when such weapon is a firearm.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-25 - referred to codes [A09083 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09083-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9083
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK, ORTIZ, MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. COLTON, GALEF, HOOPER, WRIGHT -- read once and referred  to  the
          Committee on Codes
        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
          aggravated assault upon a railroad clerk or token booth attendant
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.08-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3  § 120.08-a Aggravated assault upon  a  railroad  clerk  or  token  booth
     4             attendant.
     5    A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated assault upon a railroad clerk or
     6  token booth attendant when, with intent to cause serious physical injury
     7  to a person whom he knows or reasonably should know  to  be  a  railroad
     8  clerk  or  token booth attendant engaged in the course of performing his
     9  official duties, he causes such injury by means of a deadly weapon  when
    10  such weapon is a firearm.
    11    Aggravated assault upon a railroad clerk or token booth attendant is a
    12  class B felony.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13582-01-6
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