(a) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Government Representative" means any officer or employee of the municipality or a person under contract with the Municipality.
(2) Health Care Worker means any nurse, nurse practitioner, physician, physician assistant or technician practicing at, and all persons employed or under contract to a hospital, county or district health department, long-term care facility, physician's office, clinic or outpatient treatment facility.
(b) Battery. Any person who unlawfully, knowingly and intentionally makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with a government representative or health care worker acting in his or her official capacity, or unlawfully and intentionally causes physical harm to that person acting in such capacity is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500.00 or confined in the county or regional jail not less than thirty days or both fined and confined.
(c) Assault. Any person who unlawfully attempts to commit a violent injury to the person of a government representative or health care worker acting in his or her official capacity, or unlawfully commits an act which places that person acting in his or her official capacity in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the county or regional jail for not more than thirty days and fined not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or both fined and confined.
(Ord. 645. Passed 1-4-10.)