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Senate Bill S6043

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to municipal residency restrictions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2017-S6043 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Ren §168-w to be §168-x, add §168-w, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S1545
2021-2022: S3856
2023-2024: S6516

2017-S6043 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to municipal residency restrictions; sets permissible maximum distance from a school grounds at 1,500 feet.

2017-S6043 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6043 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6043
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
   Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to municipal residency
   restrictions
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Legislative  findings. It is the sense of the legislature
 that determinations regarding restrictions upon  the  residence  of  sex
 offenders  who  are  required  to register pursuant to the provisions of
 article 6-C of the correction law should be made by  the  local  munici-
 pality  in  which  such  offenders  reside, subject to state set minimum
 distance and a permissible maximum distance allowing state interests  to
 determine housing for registered sex offenders.  Municipalities are in a
 better  position  than  the  state  to determine whether the restrictive
 residential distance from a school grounds shall remain at one  thousand
 feet, or shall be expanded to up to one thousand five hundred feet.
   § 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604
 of  the  laws of 2005, is numbered section 168-x and a new section 168-w
 is added to read as follows:
   § 168-W.  MUNICIPAL RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS. ANY MUNICIPALITY MAY ENACT
 A LOCAL LAW WHICH IMPOSES  RESIDENCY  RESTRICTIONS  UPON  SEX  OFFENDERS
 REQUIRED  TO REGISTER PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED THAT SUCH RESI-
 DENCY RESTRICTIONS ARE NO LESS RESTRICTIVE  THAN  THE  REQUIREMENTS  SET
 FORTH  IN  PARAGRAPH  (A)  OF SUBDIVISION FOUR-A OF SECTION 65.10 OF THE
 PENAL LAW AND SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION TWO  HUNDRED  FIFTY-NINE-C
 OF  THE  EXECUTIVE LAW, AND PROVIDED THAT SUCH RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS DO
 NOT EXCEED ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FEET FROM A SCHOOL GROUNDS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11289-01-7

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