STATE OF NEW YORK
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8504
IN SENATE
October 25, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to extending drug-free school
zones to include public libraries and free association libraries
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 220.44 of the penal law, as added
2 by chapter 289 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
3 5. For purposes of subdivisions three and four of this section, "the
4 grounds of a child day care or educational facility" means (a) in or on
5 or within any building, structure, athletic playing field, a playground,
6 public library or free association library, or land contained within the
7 real property boundary line of a public or private child day care center
8 as such term is defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section
9 three hundred ninety of the social services law, or nursery, pre-kinder-
10 garten or kindergarten, or (b) any area accessible to the public located
11 within one thousand feet of the real property boundary line comprising
12 any such facility or any parked automobile or other parked vehicle
13 located within one thousand feet of the real property boundary line
14 comprising any such facility. For the purposes of this section an "area
15 accessible to the public" shall mean sidewalks, streets, parking lots,
16 parks, playgrounds, public libraries or free association libraries,
17 stores and restaurants.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16039-01-0
