Includes residences and private property located within one thousand feet of real property boundary line of any school boundary line within the definition of "school grounds" for the purposes of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3220
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 24, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CONTE
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including certain resi-
dences and private property within the definition of "school grounds"
for the purposes of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled
substance in or near school grounds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 220.44 of the penal law is renum-
2 bered subdivision 7 and a new subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
3 6. For the purposes of this section, "school grounds" means (a) in or
4 on or within any building, structure, athletic playing field, playground
5 or land contained within the real property boundary line of a public or
6 private elementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational, or
7 high school, or (b) any area accessible to the public located within one
8 thousand feet of the real property boundary line comprising any such
9 school, any residence or private property located within one thousand
10 feet of the real property boundary line comprising any such school or
11 any parked automobile or other parked vehicle located within one thou-
12 sand feet of the real property boundary line comprising any such school.
13 For the purposes of this subdivision, an "area accessible to the public"
14 shall mean sidewalks, streets, parking lots, parks, playgrounds, stores
15 and restaurants.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
17 ing the date on which 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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