N.Y. Penal Law § 240.32: Aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual

§ 240.32 Aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated

individual.

An incarcerated individual or respondent is guilty of aggravated

harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual 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, "incarcerated individual" means an

incarcerated individual 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 incarcerated individual is

a class E felony.