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Assembly Bill A10638

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the location of homeless shelters

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2025-A10638 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add §21-124.2, NYC Ad Cd

2025-A10638 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the location of homeless shelters within five hundred feet of a school, place of worship or transit facility; provides an exception for a shelter program or food program operated by a place of worship.

2025-A10638 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10638
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Cities
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to the location of homeless shelters
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
   § 21-124.2 LOCATION OF HOMELESS SHELTERS. A. NO HOMELESS SHELTER SHALL
 BE ESTABLISHED WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF ANY SCHOOL, PLACE OF  WORSHIP
 OR TRANSIT FACILITY.
   B. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
   (1)  "PLACE  OF  WORSHIP"  MEANS  A BUILDING OCCUPIED EXCLUSIVELY AS A
 SCHOOL, CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE, MOSQUE, TEMPLE OR OTHER  PLACE  OF  RELIGIOUS
 WORSHIP;
   (2) "SCHOOL" INCLUDES A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE KINDERGARTEN, PRE-KINDERGAR-
 TEN, ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL; AND
   (3) "TRANSIT FACILITY" MEANS A RAPID TRANSIT RAILROAD, OMNIBUS LINE OR
 ANY OTHER FACILITY OR ANY RAILROAD IN THE CITY USED FOR LOCAL SERVICE IN
 THE  TRANSPORTATION  OF PASSENGERS AS COMMON CARRIERS FOR HIRE OR IN THE
 TRANSPORTATION OF THE UNITED STATES MAIL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY,  AND  ANY
 PORTION  THEREOF  AND THE RIGHTS, LEASEHOLDS OR OTHER INTERESTS THEREIN,
 TOGETHER WITH THE DEVICES AND APPURTENANCES,  FACILITIES  AND  EQUIPMENT
 THEREOF  AND  POWER  PLANTS  AND  OTHER INSTRUMENTALITIES USED OR USEFUL
 THEREFOR OR IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.
   C. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO A SHELTER PROGRAM
 OR FOOD PROGRAM OPERATED BY A PLACE OF WORSHIP.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15203-02-6

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