Makes the failure of a sex offender to register or verify pursuant to the provisions of the sex offender registration act or violation of the prohibition on sex offenders being employed on a motor vehicle engaged in the retail sale of frozen desserts a class D felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1483
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. SKELOS, ALESI, BONACIC, FARLEY, FUSCHILLO, GOLDEN,
GRIFFO, HANNON, LANZA, LEIBELL, LITTLE, MARCELLINO, MAZIARZ, MORAHAN,
SALAND, SEWARD, WINNER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the failure to regis-
ter or verify under the sex offender registration act or violation of
the prohibition of sex offenders working on motor vehicles engaged in
retail sales of frozen desserts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by chapter
2 373 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 168-t. Penalty. Any sex offender required to register or to verify
4 pursuant to the provisions of this article who fails to register or
5 verify in the manner and within the time periods provided for in this
6 article [shall be guilty of a class E felony upon conviction for the
7 first offense, and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense
8 shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender] or who violates
9 the provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-v of this article
10 shall be guilty of [a class A misdemeanor upon conviction for the first
11 offense, and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be
12 guilty of] a class D felony. Any such failure to register or verify may
13 also be the basis for revocation of parole pursuant to section two
14 hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law or the basis for revocation of
15 probation pursuant to article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure
16 law.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03381-01-9
