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Assembly Bill A7759

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Imposes residency restrictions for sex offenders

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2009-A7759 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง168-w, Cor L

2009-A7759 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes residency restrictions for sex offenders: cannot live within 1,000 feet of the boundaries of any school, playground or public library where the victim of the convicted sex offense is a minor.

2009-A7759 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7759

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 23, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. ALESSI, THIELE, GUNTHER, REILLY -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Correction

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law,  in  relation   to   residency
  restrictions for sex offenders

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chap-
ter 604 of the laws of 2005, is  renumbered  section  168-x  and  a  new
section 168-w is added to read as follows:
  S  168-W. RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS.  1. NO DESIGNATED SEX OFFENDER SHALL
RESIDE WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF THE BOUNDARIES OF ANY  SCHOOL,  PLAY-
GROUND OR PUBLIC LIBRARY.
  2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
  (A)  "BOUNDARIES  OF  ANY SCHOOL" MEANS IN, ON OR WITHIN ANY BUILDING,
STRUCTURE, ATHLETIC PLAYING FIELD, PLAYGROUND OR LAND  CONTAINED  WITHIN
THE  REAL  PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE OF A CERTIFIED DAY CARE CENTER, PUBLIC
OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY, INTERMEDIATE, JUNIOR  HIGH,  VOCATIONAL  OR  HIGH
SCHOOL,  OR  SIMILAR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION WHERE CHILDREN ARE IN DAILY
ATTENDANCE.
  (B) "DESIGNATED SEX OFFENDER" MEANS ANY SEX OFFENDER WHO WAS CONVICTED
OF THE COMMISSION OF OR AN ATTEMPT TO COMMIT ANY  VIOLATION  OF  SECTION
255.25,  255.26,  OR  255.27  OR ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY, TWO HUNDRED
THIRTY-FIVE, OR TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE  OF  THE  PENAL  LAW  WHERE  THE
VICTIM OF SUCH OFFENSE WAS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS.
  3.  ANY  DESIGNATED  SEX OFFENDER WHO VIOLATES SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF A CLASS C FELONY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10694-01-9

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