Rel §168-w to be §168-x, add §168-w, amd §168-t, Cor L
Makes the failure of a sex offender to register or verify pursuant to the provisions of the sex offender registration act or violation of the prohibition on sex offenders being employed on a motor vehicle engaged in the retail sale of frozen desserts or another type of mobile food establishment or push cart a class D felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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157
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the failure to regis-
ter or verify under the sex offender registration act or violation of
the prohibition of sex offenders working on motor vehicles engaged in
retail sales of frozen desserts or other mobile food service estab-
lishments
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. Prohibition of employment on mobile food service establish-
5 ments or pushcarts. No person required to maintain registration under
6 this article shall operate, be employed on or dispense goods for sale at
7 retail on a mobile food service establishment or pushcart. For purposes
8 of this section a mobile food service establishment is defined as a
9 self-contained food service operation, located in a vehicle or a movable
10 stand, self or otherwise propelled, used to store, prepare, display or
11 serve food intended for individual portion service. For purposes of this
12 section a pushcart is defined as a cart or barrow, manually propelled,
13 used to vend food intended for individual portion service.
14 § 2. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by chapter 373 of
15 the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
16 § 168-t. Penalty. Any sex offender required to register or to verify
17 pursuant to the provisions of this article who fails to register or
18 verify in the manner and within the time periods provided for in this
19 article [shall be guilty of a class E felony upon conviction for the
20 first offense, and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender] or who violates
2 the provisions of [section] sections one hundred sixty-eight-v and one
3 hundred sixty-eight-w of this article shall be guilty of [a class A
4 misdemeanor upon conviction for the first offense, and upon conviction
5 for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty of] a class D felony.
6 Any such failure to register or verify may also be the basis for revoca-
7 tion of parole pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the exec-
8 utive law or the basis for revocation of probation pursuant to article
9 four hundred ten of the criminal procedure law.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
