Provides that a person is guilty of loitering when such person remains in a transportation facility, within twenty-five feet of the token booth or similar location, for more than twenty-five minutes unless authorized to do so or unless the facility's design would make it impossible to maintain a greater distance.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7677
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK, WEPRIN, COLTON, WILLIAMS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to loitering
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 240.35 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 7 to read as follows:
7. LOITERS OR REMAINS IN ANY TRANSPORTATION FACILITY, WITHIN TWENTY-
FIVE FEET OF THE TOKEN BOOTH OR SIMILAR LOCATION, FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-
FIVE MINUTES, UNLESS SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED TO DO SO, UNLESS BECAUSE OF
THE FACILITY'S SIZE OR DESIGN IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN SUCH
DISTANCE.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day next succeeding
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.
LBD08957-01-5
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