New York A 8954: Relates to trampoline park safety

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A08954 Summary:

BILL NOA08954 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01738

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SPONSORMcDonald

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §120.05, Pen L

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Categorizes the assault of a code enforcement official or other individual responsible for building inspection performing their lawful duties under such position as a class D felony.

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BILL NOA08954 

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07/18/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8954

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 July 18, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to categorizing the assault
 of a code enforcement official or other individual responsible for
 building inspection as a class D felony

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as added
 2 by chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdivision 15
 3 is added to read as follows:
 4 14. With intent to prevent or obstruct a process server, as defined in
 5 section eighty-nine-t of the general business law, from performing a
 6 lawful duty pursuant to article three of the civil practice law and
 7 rules, or intentionally, as retaliation against such a process server
 8 for the performance of the process server's duties pursuant to such
 9 article, including by means of releasing or failing to control an animal
 10 evincing the actor's intent that the animal prevent or obstruct the
 11 lawful duty of the process server or as retaliation against the process
 12 server, [he or she] such actor causes physical injury to such process
 13 server[.]; or
 14 15. With intent to cause physical injury, such person causes such
 15 physical injury to a code enforcement official certified pursuant to
 16 section three hundred seventy-six-a of the executive law, or any other
 17 individual whose duties include the inspection of buildings or property
 18 for compliance with the New York state uniform fire prevention and
 19 building code, the residential code of New York state, the New York
 20 property maintenance code, the multiple residence law, and/or any other
 21 state or local codes, laws, rules and/or regulations relating to build-
 22 ing and property safety, while such code enforcement official or other
 23 individual is performing such code enforcement official's or other indi-
 24 vidual's lawful duties under such position.
 25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 26 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.
 LBD04928-01-5

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