HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2749        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1730

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Increasing the Penalty for Assault and Battery on a Police Officer..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 1. Section 13D of chapter 265 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out in lines 4, 5 and 6 the words “for not less than ninety days nor more than two and one-half years in a house of correction or by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars” and inserting in their place the following words:-  in the state prison for not more than 5 years or by a fine of not more than $5000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.