Provides that any person who knowingly harbors, houses or employs a sex offender who has failed to register or verify address and employment, and who fails to contact his or her local law enforcement agency regarding such sex offender is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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869
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. RANZENHOFER, DeFRANCISCO, GOLDEN, LARKIN, MARCHIONE,
SEWARD -- 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 knowingly harboring a
sex offender who has failed to register or verify
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 168-
2 ii to read as follows:
3 § 168-ii. Failure to notify; penalty. Any person who knowingly
4 harbors, houses or employs a sex offender required to register or to
5 verify residence or employment pursuant to the provisions of this arti-
6 cle who has failed to register or to verify as required by law, and who
7 fails to notify his or her local law enforcement agency of the location
8 of such sex offender, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
10 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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