Title COR, Correction

§ 150. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "City" means the City of New York. 2. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of correction of the city provided, however, that if there shall be established by law a correctional administration in the city, "commissioner" shall mean…

§ 151. Work Release Program. The department shall establish work release programs for prisoners sentenced to New York City correctional institutions. The commissioner may extend the limits of the place of confinement of a prisoner as to whom there is reasonable cause to believe …

§ 152. Employment. The department shall endeavor to secure employment for a prisoner deemed eligible to participate in a work release program and assist him in contacting prospective employers. In carrying out this function, the department shall coordinate its efforts with other…

§ 153. Conditions of Employment. 1. A prisoner shall be permitted to be employed only if: (a) The rates of pay and other conditions of employment will not be less than those paid or provided for work of similar nature in the locality in which the work is to be performed. (b) The…

§ 154. Disposition of Earnings. The earnings of a prisoner participating in a work release program, less any payroll deductions required or authorized by law, shall be deposited with the department in a trust fund account. Such earnings shall not be subject to attachment or garn…

§ 156. Liability for a Prisoner on Work Release. No prisoner participating in a work release program or whose place of confinement is extended pursuant to this article shall be deemed an agent, employee or involuntary servant of the department or the city while employed or going…

§ 157. Rules and Regulations. The commissioner may make such rules and regulations as he shall deem necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this article.

§ 158. Designation of Place of Confinement. The commissioner may designate as a place of confinement of a prisoner any available, suitable and appropriate correctional institution or facility whether maintained by the city, state or federal government and may at any time transfe…

§ 159. Eligibility for Other Programs. The participation of any prisoner in a work release program established pursuant to this article shall in no way prejudice his eligibility for conditional release, parole or discretionary reduction of sentence.

§ 16. Expense of autopsy; state charge. 1. The reasonable expense of\nany inquiry, autopsy, examination or report prepared thereon conducted\nby a coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner as required by law\nwith respect to any death occurring to an incarcerated individu…

§ 160. Annual Report of Commissioner. The commissioner shall annually prepare a report of the work release program which shall be transmitted to the legislature on or before the first day of March in each year. Such annual report shall include a summary of the operations and act…

§ 168. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Sex Offender Registration Act".

§ 168-a. Definitions. As used in this article, the following definitions apply: 1. "Sex offender" includes any person who is convicted of any of the offenses set forth in subdivision two or three of this section. Convictions that result from or are connected with the same act, o…

§ 168-b. Duties of the division; registration information. 1. The division shall establish and maintain a file of individuals required to register pursuant to the provisions of this article which shall include the following information of each registrant: (a) The sex offender's …

§ 168-c. Sex offender; relocation; notification. 1. In the case of any sex offender, it shall be the duty of the department, hospital or local correctional facility at least ten calendar days prior to the release or discharge of any sex offender from a correctional facility, hos…

§ 168-d. Duties of the court. 1. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision, upon conviction of any of the offenses set forth in subdivision two or three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of this article the court shall certify that the person is a s…

§ 168-e. Discharge of sex offender from correctional facility; duties of official in charge. 1. Any sex offender, to be discharged, paroled, released to post-release supervision or released from any state or local correctional facility, hospital or institution where he or she wa…

§ 168-f. Duty to register and to verify. 1. Any sex offender shall, (a) at least ten calendar days prior to discharge, parole, release to post-release supervision or release from any state or local correctional facility, hospital or institution where he or she was confined or co…

§ 168-g. Prior convictions; duty to inform and register. 1. The department or office of probation and correctional alternatives in accordance with risk factors pursuant to section one hundred sixty-eight-l of this article shall determine the duration of registration and notifica…

§ 168-h. Duration of registration and verification. 1. The duration of registration and verification for a sex offender who has not been designated a sexual predator, or a sexually violent offender, or a predicate sex offender, and who is classified as a level one risk, or who h…

§ 168-i. Registration and verification requirements. Registration and verification as required by this article shall consist of a statement in writing signed by the sex offender giving the information that is required by the division and the division shall enter the information …

§ 168-j. Notification of local law enforcement agencies of change of address. 1. Upon receipt of a change of address by a sex offender required to register under this article, but in any event no more than two business days after such receipt, the division shall notify the local…

§ 168-k. Registration for change of address from another state. 1. A sex offender who has been convicted of an offense which requires registration under paragraph (d) of subdivision two or paragraph (b) of subdivision three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of this article sh…

§ 168-l. Board of examiners of sex offenders. 1. There shall be a board of examiners of sex offenders which shall possess the powers and duties hereinafter specified. Such board shall consist of five members appointed by the governor. All members shall be employees of the depart…

§ 168-m. Review. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any state or local correctional facility, hospital or institution, district attorney, law enforcement agency, probation department, state board of parole, court or child protective agency shall forward …

§ 168-n. Judicial determination. 1. A determination that an offender is a sexual predator, sexually violent offender, or predicate sex offender as defined in subdivision seven of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of this article shall be made prior to the discharge, parole, rele…

§ 168-o. Petition for relief or modification. 1. Any sex offender who is classified as a level two risk, and who has not been designated a sexual predator, or a sexually violent offender, or a predicate sex offender, who is required to register or verify pursuant to this article…

§ 168-p. Special telephone number. 1. Pursuant to section one hundred\nsixty-eight-b of this article, the division shall also operate a\ntelephone number that members of the public may call free of charge and\ninquire whether a named individual required to register pursuant to t…

§ 168-q. Subdirectory; internet posting. 1. The division shall maintain a subdirectory of level two and three sex offenders. The subdirectory shall include the exact address, address of the offender's place of employment and photograph of the sex offender along with the followin…

§ 168-r. Immunity from liability. 1. No official, employee or agency, whether public or private, shall be subject to any civil or criminal liability for damages for any discretionary decision to release relevant and necessary information pursuant to this section, unless it is sh…

§ 168-s. Annual report. The division shall on or before February first in each year file a report with the governor, and the legislature detailing the program, compliance with provisions of this article and effectiveness of the provisions of this article, together with any recom…

§ 168-t. Penalty. Any sex offender required to register or to verify pursuant to the provisions of this article who fails to register or verify in the manner and within the time periods provided for in this article shall be guilty of a class E felony upon conviction for the firs…

§ 168-u. Unauthorized release of information. The unauthorized release of any information required by this article shall be a class B misdemeanor.

§ 168-v. Prohibition of employment on motor vehicles engaged in retail sales of frozen desserts. No person required to maintain registration under this article (sex offender registration act) shall operate, be employed on or dispense goods for sale at retail on a motor vehicle e…

§ 168-w. Separability. If any section of this article, or part thereof shall be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder or any other section or part thereof.

§ 17. Notice to emergency contacts. Within twenty-four hours of the attempted suicide or hospitalization of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department, the department shall notify the emergency contacts of such incarcerated indi…

§ 170. Contracts prohibited. 1. The commissioner shall not, nor shall any other authority whatsoever, make any contract by which the labor or time of any incarcerated individual in any state or local correctional facility in this state, or the product or profit of his or her wor…

§ 171. Incarcerated individuals to be employed; products of labor of incarcerated individuals. 1. The commissioner and the superintendents and officials of all penitentiaries in the state may cause incarcerated individuals in the state correctional facilities and such penitentia…

§ 177. Labor of incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities. 1. The labor of incarcerated individuals in the state correctional facilities, after the necessary labor for and manufacture of all needed supplies for said institutions, shall be primarily devo…

§ 178. Participation in work release and other community activities. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed or applied so as to prohibit private employment of incarcerated individuals in the community under a work release program, or a residential treatment facilit…

§ 18. Superintendents of correctional facilities. 1. Each correctional facility shall have a superintendent who shall be appointed by the commissioner. Each such superintendent shall be in the non-competitive-confidential class but shall be appointed from employees of the depart…

§ 183. Classification of industries; report concerning industries. 1. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to distribute, among the correctional institutions under his jurisdiction, the labor and industries assigned to said institutions, due regard being had to the location …

§ 184. Articles manufactured to be furnished to the state or subdivisions thereof. 1. The commissioner is authorized and directed to cause to be manufactured or prepared by the incarcerated individuals in the state correctional facilities, such articles as are needed and used th…

§ 185. Estimates of articles required to be furnished. On or before July first in each year, the proper officials of the state, and the political subdivisions thereof, and of the institutions of the state, or political subdivisions thereof, shall report to the department of corr…

§ 186. Prices of labor performed and articles manufactured in correctional facilities. 1. The commissioner shall establish the prices at which all services performed, and all articles manufactured in the correctional facilities in this state, and furnished to the state, or the p…

§ 187. Earnings of incarcerated individuals. 1. Every incarcerated\nindividual confined in a state correctional facility, subject to the\nrules and regulations of the department of corrections and community\nsupervision, and every incarcerated individual confined in a local\ncor…

§ 189. Disposition of moneys paid to prisoner for his labor. The amount of such compensation to the credit of any prisoner may be drawn by the prisoner during his imprisonment, only upon approval of the commissioner to aid dependent relatives of such prisoner, or for such other …

§ 19. Salary and emoluments of superintendents. 1. This section shall apply to each superintendent of a correctional facility appointed on or after August ninth, nineteen hundred seventy-five and any superintendent heretofore appointed who elects to be covered by the provisions …

§ 190. Monthly statement of receipts and expenditures for industries. The warden of each of the state prisons shall, on the first of each month, make a full detailed statement of all materials, machinery or other property procured, and of the cost thereof, and of the expenditure…

§ 193. Disposition of machinery on discontinuance of industry. Whenever any trade or industry is discontinued at any state correctional institution and it appears to the satisfaction of the commissioner, that such trade or industry will not again be put in operation in any state…