S04260 Summary:
| BILL NO | S04260 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A06141 |
| SPONSOR | AVELLA |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add S205.35, Pen L | |
| Establishes the crime of aggravated resisting arrest; makes it a class E felony. | |
S04260 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4260 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 11, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- 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 establishing the crime of aggravated resisting arrest 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 205.35 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 205.35 Aggravated resisting arrest. 4 A person is guilty of aggravated resisting arrest when he or she 5 commits the crime of resisting arrest pursuant to section 205.30 and has 6 previously been convicted of such crime two prior times within a ten 7 year period. 8 Aggravated resisting arrest is a class E felony. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 10 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. LBD09032-01-5