ASSEMBLY, No. 972

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblyman ASSELTA

An Act concerning law enforcement officers and supplementing chapter 12 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. A person who knowingly removes a firearm or weapon from the person of a law enforcement officer, or deprives a law enforcement officer of the use of a firearm or weapon, when that officer is acting in the performance of his duties and either is in uniform or exhibits evidence of his authority is guilty of a crime of the third degree.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill establishes the offense of disarming a law enforcement officer. Under the provisions of the bill, a person who knowingly removes or deprives a law enforcement officer of a firearm or weapon at a time when that officer is acting in the performance of his duties and either is in uniform or exhibits evidence of his authority is guilty of a crime of the third degree. A crime of the third degree is punishable by a fine of not more than $7,500, imprisonment for a term of between three and five years, or both.

Creates offense of disarming a law enforcement officer.