S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1947
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 12, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the residence of a
sex offender
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 168-c of the correction law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
2-A. NO SEX OFFENDER RELEASED OR DISCHARGED FROM A CORRECTIONAL FACIL-
ITY, HOSPITAL OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OR PLACED ON PROBATION
SHALL RESIDE WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING USED EXCLUSIVELY AS
A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN IN STRAIGHT LINES FROM THE CENTER
OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE RESIDENCE TO THE CENTER OF THE NEAREST
ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
S 2. Section 168-f of the correction law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
4-A. A SEX OFFENDER, AFTER HIS OR HER DISCHARGE, PAROLE OR RELEASE
FROM ANY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, HOSPITAL OR LOCAL FACILITY OR WHO WAS
PLACED ON PROBATION AND WHO HAS ESTABLISHED A RESIDENCE SHALL NOT CHANGE
SAID RESIDENCE SO AS TO RESIDE WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING
USED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN IN STRAIGHT
LINES FROM THE CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE RESIDENCE TO THE
CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
S 3. Section 168-k of the correction law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 5 to read as follows:
5. A SEX OFFENDER WHO HAS ESTABLISHED RESIDENCE IN THIS STATE PURSUANT
TO THIS SECTION SHALL NOT RESIDE WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF A BUILDING
USED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN IN STRAIGHT
LINES FROM THE CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE RESIDENCE TO THE
CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
S 4. 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.