STATE OF NEW YORK
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3985
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting regis-
tered sex offenders from residing in certain locations
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 relettered by chap-
2 ter 604 of the laws of 2005, is relettered section 168-x and a new
3 section 168-w is added to read as follows:
4 § 168-w. Registered sex offender residence limitation. 1. No sex
5 offender required to register under this article shall reside within one
6 thousand feet of the boundaries of any public or private elementary,
7 secondary or vocational school, or with five hundred feet of the bounda-
8 ry of any public park, or within two thousand feet of the residence of
9 the victim of the registered sex offender.
10 2. "Boundaries of any school" means in, on or within any building,
11 structure, athletic playing field, playground or land contained within
12 the real property boundary line of a public or private elementary,
13 secondary or vocational school, or similar educational institution where
14 children are in daily attendance.
15 3. Any designated sex offender who violates any provision of subdivi-
16 sion one of this section shall be guilty of a class E felony.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth 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.
LBD05922-01-3
