Bill Text: NY S05605 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends the buffer zone around a religious service, funeral, burial or memorial service from 100 feet to 300 feet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-16 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7698 [S05605 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S05605-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5605
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
June 6, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, 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 extending the buffer zone
around a religious service, funeral, burial or memorial service
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 240.21 of the penal law,
2 as amended by chapter 566 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 A person is guilty of disruption or disturbance of a religious
5 service, funeral, burial or memorial service when he or she makes unrea-
6 sonable noise or disturbance while at a lawfully assembled religious
7 service, funeral, burial or memorial service, or within [one] THREE
8 hundred feet thereof, with intent to cause annoyance or alarm or reck-
9 lessly creating a risk thereof.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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