(a) Battery. No person shall unlawfully and intentionally make physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with a police officer, conservation officer, county correctional officer or state correctional officer acting in his or her official capacity, or unlawfully and intentionally cause physical harm to a police officer, conservation officer, county correctional officer or state correctional officer acting in such capacity. Upon conviction hereof, such person shall be confined in the regional jail for a period of not less than forty-eight hours nor more than thirty days or fined the sum of five hundred dollars or both.
(b) Assault. No person shall unlawfully attempt to commit a violent injury to the person of a police officer, conservation officer, county correctional officer or state correctional officer, or unlawfully commit an act which places a police officer, conservation officer, county correctional officer or state correctional officer acting in his or her official capacity in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury. Upon conviction hereof, such person shall be confined in the regional jail for not less than twenty-four hours nor more than thirty days, or fined not more than two hundred dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment.
(c) Police Officer Defined. As used in this section, a “police officer” means any officer employed by any city or municipality who is responsible for the prevention or detection of crime and the enforcement of the penal, traffic or highway laws of this State, any officer employed by the Division of Public Safety, or any county law enforcement agency.
(Ord. 10839. Passed 9-19-95.)