Bill Text: NY A07718 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders required to register with the division of criminal justice services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to correction [A07718 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07718-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7718
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JOHNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  authorizing  munici-
          palities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Legislative findings. It is the sense  of  the  legislature
     2  that  determinations  regarding  restrictions  upon the residence of sex
     3  offenders who are required to register pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
     4  article  6-C  of  the correction law should be made by the local munici-
     5  pality in which such offenders reside  since  municipalities  are  in  a
     6  better  position  than  the state, after taking into consideration local
     7  conditions and after determining what  entities  with  vulnerable  popu-
     8  lations  would require protection from registered sex offenders, to make
     9  such determinations.
    10    § 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604
    11  of the laws of 2005, is redesignated section 168-x  and  a  new  section
    12  168-w is added to read as follows:
    13    § 168-w. Municipal residency restrictions.  Any municipality may enact
    14  a  local  law  which  imposes  residency restrictions upon sex offenders
    15  required to register pursuant to this article, provided that such  resi-
    16  dency  restrictions  are  no  less restrictive than the requirements set
    17  forth in paragraph (a) of subdivision four-a of  section  65.10  of  the
    18  penal  law  and subdivision fourteen of section two hundred fifty-nine-c
    19  of the executive law.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07998-01-7