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Senate Bill S4656

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides that the definition of "school grounds" shall include day care facilities for purposes of sale or possession of controlled substances

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2011-S4656 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง220.00, Pen L

2011-S4656 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the definition of "school grounds" shall also include day care facilities for the purposes of criminal sale of a controlled substance.

2011-S4656 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S4656 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4656

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. FUSCHILLO, DeFRANCISCO, JOHNSON, LARKIN, OPPENHEIM-
  ER, PARKER, PERKINS, ZELDIN -- read twice  and  ordered  printed,  and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to the criminal sale of
  controlled substances on school grounds

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  14  of  section  220.00 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 292 of the laws  of  1994,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  14. "School grounds" means (a) in or on or within any building, struc-
ture,  athletic  playing  field, playground or land contained within the
real property boundary line of a public or private elementary,  parochi-
al,  intermediate, junior high, vocational, [or] high school OR DAY CARE
FACILITY, or (b) any area accessible to the public  located  within  one
thousand  feet  of  the  real property boundary line comprising any such
school OR FACILITY or any parked  automobile  or  other  parked  vehicle
located  within  one  thousand  feet  of the real property boundary line
comprising any such school OR  FACILITY.    For  the  purposes  of  this
section  an  "area  accessible  to  the  public"  shall  mean sidewalks,
streets, parking lots, parks, playgrounds, stores and restaurants.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00441-01-1

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