§ 11-5-7 Assault of schoolteachers, school
officials or other school department employees. –
Any person who shall knowingly and willfully strike a schoolteacher, student
teacher, school security officer or school administrator, causing bodily
injury, while the teacher, student teacher, security officer, administrator, or
school department employee is engaged in the performance of his or her duty,
shall be deemed to have committed a felony, and shall be imprisoned not
exceeding three (3) years, or fined not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars
($1,500), or both.
(P.L. 1972, ch. 208, § 1; P.L. 1984, ch. 70, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 203,
§ 1.)