PRINTER'S NO. 2155
No. 1534 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY EARLL, SALVATORE, CONTI, ROBBINS, LEMMOND, BELL,
ARMSTRONG, COSTA, WOZNIAK, WILLIAMS AND GERLACH,
SEPTEMBER 23, 1998
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense and
3 penalty for aggravated assault.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2702 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2702. Aggravated assault.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of aggravated
10 assault if he:
11 (1) attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another,
12 or causes such injury intentionally, knowingly or recklessly
13 under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the
14 value of human life;
15 (2) attempts to cause or intentionally, knowingly or
16 recklessly causes serious bodily injury to any of the
17 officers, agents, employees or other persons enumerated in
18 subsection (c) or to an employee of an agency, company or
1 other entity engaged in public transportation, while in the
2 performance of duty;
3 (3) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
4 causes bodily injury to any of the officers, agents,
5 employees or other persons enumerated in subsection (c), in
6 the performance of duty;
7 (4) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
8 causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon;
9 (5) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly
10 causes bodily injury to a teaching staff member, school board
11 member, other employee or student of any elementary or
12 secondary publicly-funded educational institution any
13 elementary or secondary private school licensed by the
14 Department of Education or any elementary or secondary
15 parochial school while acting in the scope of his or her
16 employment or because of his or her employment relationship
17 to the school; or
18 (6) attempts by physical menace to put any of the
19 officers, agents, employees or other persons enumerated in
20 subsection (c), while in the performance of duty, in fear of
21 imminent serious bodily injury.
22 (b) Grading.--Aggravated assault under subsection (a)(1)
23 [and], (2) and (5) is a felony of the first degree. Aggravated
24 assault under subsection (a)(3), (4)[, (5)] and (6) is a felony
25 of the second degree.
26 (c) Officers, employees, etc., enumerated.--The officers,
27 agents, employees and other persons referred to in subsection
28 (a) shall be as follows:
29 (1) Police officer.
30 (2) Firefighter.
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1 (3) County adult probation or parole officer.
2 (4) County juvenile probation or parole officer.
3 (5) An agent of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
4 Parole.
5 (6) Sheriff.
6 (7) Deputy sheriff.
7 (8) Liquor control enforcement agent.
8 (9) Officer or employee of a correctional institution,
9 county jail or prison, juvenile detention center or any other
10 facility to which the person has been ordered by the court
11 pursuant to a petition alleging delinquency under 42 Pa.C.S.
12 Ch. 63 (relating to juvenile matters).
13 (10) Judge of any court in the unified judicial system.
14 (11) The Attorney General.
15 (12) A deputy attorney general.
16 (13) A district attorney.
17 (14) An assistant district attorney.
18 (15) A public defender.
19 (16) An assistant public defender.
20 (17) A Federal law enforcement official.
21 (18) A State law enforcement official.
22 (19) A local law enforcement official.
23 (20) Any person employed to assist or who assists any
24 Federal, State or local law enforcement official.
25 (21) Emergency medical services personnel.
26 (22) Parking enforcement officer.
27 (23) A district justice.
28 (24) A constable.
29 (25) A deputy constable.
30 (26) A psychiatric aide.
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1 (d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term
2 "emergency medical services personnel" includes, but is not
3 limited to, doctors, residents, interns, registered nurses,
4 licensed practical nurses, nurse aides, ambulance attendants and
5 operators, paramedics, emergency medical technicians and members
6 of a hospital security force while working within the scope of
7 their employment.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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