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S 2118: Categorizes the assault of an individual responsible for local parking enforcement performing their lawful duties under such position as a class D felony.
What S 2118 does, verified January 8, 2026
The proposed law aims to categorize a specific type of assault as a class D felony. This type of assault involves intentionally causing physical harm to a process server, with the intention of preventing or obstructing their lawful duties, or as retaliation for performing their duties. Additionally, the law targets individuals who cause physical harm to process servers while they are performing their duties, which may include enforcing local parking laws and regulations. The law would take effect on the first day of November next year.
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6ChapteredPending
Last action: REFERRED TO CODES (2026-01-07)Alert me
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO CODES |
| Jan. 15, 2025 | REFERRED TO CODES |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 15, 2025 · 328 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2118 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- 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 an individual responsible for local parking enforcement 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 injury to an individual whose duties include the enforcement of local 16 parking laws, ordinances and/or regulations, while such individual is 17 performing their lawful duties under such position. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 19 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. LBD05080-01-5
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