Provides for the employment of inmates in the county of Nassau to clean up property that has been damaged by graffiti; provides that such clean up may take place on private property with the consent of the owner of such property.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6232
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRA, WALKER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the employment of
inmates in the county of Nassau to clean up property damaged by graff-
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The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 172
2 to read as follows:
3 § 172. Labor of inmates; graffiti clean up; Nassau county. Notwith-
4 standing any other provision of law, the commissioner, in cooperation
5 with the Nassau county graffiti task force may cause inmates in the
6 Nassau county jail in the county of Nassau who are physically capable
7 thereof to be employed for not to exceed eight hours of each day other
8 than Sundays and public holidays for the purpose of cleaning up property
9 within the county of Nassau which has been damaged by graffiti. Such
10 clean up shall include the clean up of any property, both real and
11 personal, whether public or private in nature, that has been damaged by
12 graffiti; provided, however, that prior to undertaking the clean up of
13 graffiti on private property, the commissioner shall obtain the written
14 consent of all owners of such private property.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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