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240.32 – Aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate

§ 240.32 Aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate.

An inmate or respondent is guilty of aggravated harassment of an
employee by an inmate when, with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or
alarm a person in a facility whom he or she knows or reasonably should
know to be an employee of such facility or the board of parole or the
office of mental health, or a probation department, bureau or unit or a
police officer, he or she causes or attempts to cause such employee to
come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the
contents of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid
or material.

For purposes of this section, “inmate” means an inmate or detainee in
a correctional facility, local correctional facility or a hospital, as
such term is defined in subdivision two of section four hundred of the
correction law. For purposes of this section, “respondent” means a
juvenile in a secure facility operated and maintained by the office of
children and family services who is placed with or committed to the
office of children and family services. For purposes of this section,
“facility” means a correctional facility or local correctional facility,
hospital, as such term is defined in subdivision two of section four
hundred of the correction law, or a secure facility operated and
maintained by the office of children and family services.

Aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate is a class E felony.

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