Provides that no municipality, by local law, order or ordinance, shall prohibit any local government officer, employee, agent or agency from identifying or reporting to the United States bureau of immigration and customs enforcement, any person who such officer, employee, agent or agency reasonably suspect to have committed a crime or to be in violation of federal immigration laws.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2611
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 19, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to reporting
information to the United States bureau of immigration and customs
enforcement
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 99-v to read as follows:
3 § 99-v. Reports to United States bureau of immigration and customs
4 enforcement. No local law, executive order, or other such law, order,
5 or ordinance, shall prohibit any local government officer, employee,
6 agent, or agency, from identifying or reporting, to the United States
7 bureau of immigration and customs enforcement any person, pursuant to
8 federal law or regulation, who such agent, or agency, reasonably
9 suspects to:
10 1. have committed a crime; and
11 2. be in violation of federal immigration laws.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06641-01-1
