employee of facility for delinquent children, juvenile detention center or juvenile bureau. A. Every person who, without justifiable or excusable cause, knowingly commits any assault, battery or assault and battery upon the person of an employee of a facility maintained by the Office of Juvenile Affairs, a facility maintained by a private contractor pursuant to a contract with the Office of Juvenile Affairs primarily for delinquent children, a juvenile detention center, or a juvenile bureau, while the employee is in the performance of his duties, shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a Class B6 felony offense. B. This section shall not supersede any other act or acts, but shall be cumulative thereto. Added by Laws 1984, c. 276, § 1, emerg. eff. May 30, 1984. Renumbered from § 1149 of Title 10 by Laws 1995, c. 352, § 200, eff. July 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 247, § 28, eff. July 1, 1996; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 226, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, c. 99, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 184, eff. Jan. 1, 2026. NOTE: Laws 1997, c. 293, § 38 repealed by Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 452, eff. July 1, 1999, but was subsequently amended by Laws 1999, c. 99, § 2. Laws 1997, c. 293, § 37 repealed by Laws 2000, c. 6, § 34, emerg. eff. March 20, 2000.
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