Bill Text: NY A05290 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits registered sex offenders from using or being within five hundred feet of any state or municipal-owned park.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to correction [A05290 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05290-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5290

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Correction

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law, in relation to prohibiting sex
          offenders from using state and municipal parks

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as renumbered by chap-
     2  ter  604  of  the  laws  of  2005, is renumbered section 168-x and a new
     3  section 168-w is added to read as follows:
     4    § 168-w. Prohibiting use of parks.  Any  person  who  is  required  to
     5  register  pursuant to this article is prohibited from entering, being in
     6  or being located within five hundred feet of any of the following  plac-
     7  es:
     8    1. State park.
     9    2. Municipal-owned park.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09134-01-1