Bill Text: NY A09961 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends drug-free school zones to include public libraries and free association libraries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-11 - held for consideration in codes [A09961 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A09961-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9961 I N A S S E M B L Y February 19, 2010 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes 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 S 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