New York Assembly Bill A05540 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5540 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the offense of obstructing a police officer 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 195.09 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 195.09 Obstructing a police officer. 4 A person is guilty of obstructing a police officer when he or she 5 intentionally interferes with, inhibits, or attempts to interfere with 6 or inhibit, a police officer or a peace officer from engaging in the 7 course of performing their official duties, including but not limited 8 to: 9 1. spitting, throwing or spilling items, liquid or otherwise, at or on 10 such officer; or 11 2. pushing, shoving, kicking, physically impeding or otherwise 12 subjecting such officer to physical contact. 13 Obstructing a police officer is a class E felony. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01045-01-3