Prohibits sex offender from being entitled to licenses as state certified and licensed real estate appraisers; requires real estate appraisers convicted of sex offenses to, within five days of the imposition of sentence, transmit a certified copy of the judgment of conviction to the department of state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting sex offen-
ders from being entitled to licenses as state certified and licensed
real estate appraisers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 160-p of the executive law, as amended by chapter
2 241 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 160-p. Basis for denial. 1. The department may, in accordance with
4 the provisions of this article relating to hearings, deny the issuance
5 of a certificate as a state certified real estate appraiser, or license
6 as a state licensed real estate appraiser, or license as a state
7 licensed real estate appraiser assistant, to an applicant on any of the
8 grounds enumerated in this article and to an applicant who has been
9 convicted of a sex offense, as defined in subdivision two of section one
10 hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law or any offense committed
11 outside of this state which would constitute a sex offense, or a sexual-
12 ly violent offense, as defined in subdivision three of section one
13 hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law or any offense committed
14 outside this state which would constitute a sexually violent offense.
15 2. Whenever any person licensed as a state certified real estate
16 appraiser, state licensed real estate appraiser, or state licensed real
17 estate appraiser assistant is convicted in this state or elsewhere of a
18 sex offense, as defined in subdivision two of section one hundred
19 sixty-eight-a of the correction law or any offense committed outside of
20 this state which would constitute a sex offense, or a sexually violent
21 offense, as defined in subdivision three of section one hundred sixty-
22 eight-a of the correction law or any offense committed outside this
23 state which would constitute a sexually violent offense, such state
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 certified real estate appraiser, state licensed real estate appraiser,
2 or state licensed real estate appraiser assistant shall within five days
3 of the imposition of sentence, transmit a certified copy of the judgment
4 of conviction to the department.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
