STATE OF NEW YORK
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3925
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. VENDITTO, FUNKE, MURPHY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing munici-
palities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Legislative findings. It is the sense of the legislature
2 that determinations regarding restrictions upon the residence of sex
3 offenders who are required to register pursuant to the provisions of
4 article 6-C of the correction law should be made by the local munici-
5 pality in which such offenders reside since municipalities are in a
6 better position than the state, after taking into consideration local
7 conditions and after determining what entities with vulnerable popu-
8 lations would require protection from registered sex offenders, to make
9 such determinations.
10 § 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604
11 of the laws of 2005, is redesignated section 168-x and a new section
12 168-w is added to read as follows:
13 § 168-w. Municipal residency restrictions. Any municipality may enact
14 a local law which imposes residency restrictions upon sex offenders
15 required to register pursuant to this article, provided that such resi-
16 dency restrictions are no less restrictive than the requirements set
17 forth in paragraph (a) of subdivision four-a of section 65.10 of the
18 penal law and subdivision fourteen of section two hundred fifty-nine-c
19 of the executive law.
20 § 3. 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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