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New York Penal - Article 240 - § 240.32 Aggravated Harassment of an Employee by an Inmate

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  § 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  or  feces, 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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