Bill Text: NY S04656 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the definition of "school grounds" shall also include day care facilities for the purposes of criminal sale of a controlled substance.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04656 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04656-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4656
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 14, 2011
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       Introduced  by Sens. FUSCHILLO, DeFRANCISCO, JOHNSON, LARKIN, OPPENHEIM-
         ER, PARKER, PERKINS, ZELDIN -- read twice  and  ordered  printed,  and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to the criminal sale of
         controlled substances on school grounds
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  14  of  section  220.00 of the penal law, as
    2  amended by chapter 292 of the laws  of  1994,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    14. "School grounds" means (a) in or on or within any building, struc-
    5  ture,  athletic  playing  field, playground or land contained within the
    6  real property boundary line of a public or private elementary,  parochi-
    7  al,  intermediate, junior high, vocational, [or] high school OR DAY CARE
    8  FACILITY, or (b) any area accessible to the public  located  within  one
    9  thousand  feet  of  the  real property boundary line comprising any such
   10  school OR FACILITY or any parked  automobile  or  other  parked  vehicle
   11  located  within  one  thousand  feet  of the real property boundary line
   12  comprising any such school OR  FACILITY.    For  the  purposes  of  this
   13  section  an  "area  accessible  to  the  public"  shall  mean sidewalks,
   14  streets, parking lots, parks, playgrounds, stores and restaurants.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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