Requires the sponsoring agency of a proposed community residence to provide the chief executive officer of the municipality with the number of registered sex offenders who will live in such residence.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7038
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 29, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring the
sponsor of a proposed community residence to provide notice to the
executive officer of the municipality of the number of registered sex
offenders who would be residing in such residence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of
2 section 41.34 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 1024 of
3 the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
4 When a site has been selected by the sponsoring agency, it shall noti-
5 fy the chief executive officer of the municipality in writing and
6 include in such notice the specific address of the site, the type of
7 community residence, the number of residents, the number of residents
8 who are sex offenders required to register pursuant to article six-C of
9 the correction law and the community support requirements of the
10 program. Such notice shall also contain the most recently published data
11 compiled pursuant to section four hundred [sixty-three] sixty-three-a of
12 the social services law which can reasonably be expected to permit the
13 municipality to evaluate all such facilities affecting the nature and
14 character of the area wherein such proposed facility is to be located.
15 The municipality shall have forty days after the receipt of such notice
16 to:
17 § 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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