A. Every person who, without justifiable or excusable cause and with intent to do bodily harm, commits any aggravated assault and battery or any assault with a firearm or other deadly weapon upon the person of a medical care provider, upon conviction, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not less than two (2) years nor more than five (5) years, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B. As used in this section, "medical care provider" means doctors, residents, interns, nurses, nurses' aides, ambulance attendants and operators, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, laboratory technicians, radiologic technologists, physical therapists, physician assistants, chaplains, volunteers, pharmacists, nursing students, medical students and members of a hospital security force.
Added by Laws 1990, c. 320, § 3, emerg. eff. May 30, 1990. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 224, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 130, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2020, c. 68, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 224 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.