2017 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 28 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
28-931.01 Assault on an officer, emergency responder, certain employees, or a health care professional using a motor vehicle; penalty.
28-931.01. Assault on an officer, emergency responder, certain employees, or a health care professional using a motor vehicle; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of assault on an officer, an emergency responder, a state correctional employee, a Department of Health and Human Services employee, or a health care professional using a motor vehicle if:
(a) By using a motor vehicle to run over or to strike an officer, an emergency responder, a state correctional employee, a Department of Health and Human Services employee, or a health care professional or by using a motor vehicle to collide with an officer's, an emergency responder's, a state correctional employee's, a Department of Health and Human Services employee's, or a health care professional's motor vehicle, he or she intentionally and knowingly causes bodily injury:
(i) To a peace officer, a probation officer, a firefighter, an out-of-hospital emergency care provider, or an employee of the Department of Correctional Services;
(ii) To an employee of the Department of Health and Human Services if the person committing the offense is committed as a dangerous sex offender under the Sex Offender Commitment Act; or
(iii) To a health care professional; and
(b) The offense is committed while such officer, firefighter, out-of-hospital emergency care provider, or employee is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties or while the health care professional is on duty at a hospital or a health clinic.
(2) Assault on an officer, an emergency responder, a state correctional employee, a Department of Health and Human Services employee, or a health care professional using a motor vehicle shall be a Class IIIA felony.
Source
- Laws 1995, LB 371, § 31;
- Laws 1997, LB 364, § 12;
- Laws 2005, LB 538, § 4;
- Laws 2010, LB771, § 7;
- Laws 2014, LB811, § 21.
Cross References
- Sex Offender Commitment Act, see section 71-1201.
