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Assembly Bill A10149

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing

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2013-A10149 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7864
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง837-f-2, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A3917, A7468, S3790, S6437

2013-A10149 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.

2013-A10149 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10149

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 17, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Scarborough)
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring police agen-
  cies  to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported
  to be missing

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

  Section  1.    This  act  shall  be  known and may be cited as "Lamont
Dottin's law".
  S 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  837-f-2  to
read as follows:
  S  837-F-2. MISSING ADULTS. IN THE EVENT THAT A POLICE AGENCY RECEIVES
A REPORT THAT A PERSON IS MISSING FROM HIS OR HER  NORMAL  AND  ORDINARY
PLACE  OF  RESIDENCE  AND  WHOSE  WHEREABOUTS  CANNOT BE DETERMINED BY A
PERSON WHOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH SUCH PERSON WOULD PLACE THEM IN  A  POSI-
TION  TO  HAVE  KNOWLEDGE  OF THEIR WHEREABOUTS, AND SUCH MISSING PERSON
DOES NOT QUALIFY AS EITHER A MISSING CHILD  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  EIGHT
HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-E OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW OR A VULNERABLE ADULT PURSU-
ANT  TO EXECUTIVE LAW SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-1 OF THE EXECU-
TIVE LAW, THE POLICE AGENCY SHALL COLLECT INFORMATION NECESSARY TO  FILE
AN  ELECTRONIC  REPORT WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER REGIS-
TER. WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF  COLLECTING  THE  INFORMATION,  IF  THE
POLICE  AGENCY  HAS  NOT  BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THE MISSING PERSON HAS BEEN
LOCATED, THE POLICE AGENCY SHALL SUBMIT AN ELECTRONIC  REPORT  REGARDING
THE MISSING PERSON WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER REGISTER.
  S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15562-04-4

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