Title COR, Correction

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

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

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

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

§ 154. Disposition of Earnings. The earnings of a prisoner\nparticipating in a work release program, less any payroll deductions\nrequired or authorized by law, shall be deposited with the department in\na trust fund account. Such earnings shall not be subject to attachment\nor …

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

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

§ 158. Designation of Place of Confinement. The commissioner may\ndesignate as a place of confinement of a prisoner any available,\nsuitable and appropriate correctional institution or facility whether\nmaintained by the city, state or federal government and may at any time\ntra…

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

§ 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\nprepare a report of the work release program which shall be transmitted\nto the legislature on or before the first day of March in each year.\nSuch annual report shall include a summary of the operations and\…

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

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

§ 168-b. Duties of the division; registration information. 1. The\ndivision shall establish and maintain a file of individuals required to\nregister pursuant to the provisions of this article which shall include\nthe following information of each registrant:\n (a) The sex offend…

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

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

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

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

§ 168-g. Prior convictions; duty to inform and register. 1. The\ndepartment or office of probation and correctional alternatives in\naccordance with risk factors pursuant to section one hundred\nsixty-eight-l of this article shall determine the duration of\nregistration and noti…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 168-m. Review. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the\ncontrary, any state or local correctional facility, hospital or\ninstitution, district attorney, law enforcement agency, probation\ndepartment, state board of parole, court or child protective agency\nshall forw…

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

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

§ 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\nmaintain a subdirectory of level two and three sex offenders. The\nsubdirectory shall include the exact address, address of the offender's\nplace of employment and photograph of the sex offender along with the\nfoll…

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

§ 168-s. Annual report. The division shall on or before February first\nin each year file a report with the governor, and the legislature\ndetailing the program, compliance with provisions of this article and\neffectiveness of the provisions of this article, together with any\nr…

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

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

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

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

§ 17. Notice to emergency contacts. Within twenty-four hours of the\nattempted suicide or hospitalization of an incarcerated individual or\nany other individual occurring in the custody of the department, the\ndepartment shall notify the emergency contacts of such incarcerated\n…

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

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

§ 177. Labor of incarcerated individuals in state and local\ncorrectional facilities. 1. The labor of incarcerated individuals in the\nstate correctional facilities, after the necessary labor for and\nmanufacture of all needed supplies for said institutions, shall be\nprimarily …

§ 178. Participation in work release and other community activities.\nNothing contained in this article shall be construed or applied so as to\nprohibit private employment of incarcerated individuals in the community\nunder a work release program, or a residential treatment faci…

§ 18. Superintendents of correctional facilities. 1. Each correctional\nfacility shall have a superintendent who shall be appointed by the\ncommissioner. Each such superintendent shall be in the\nnon-competitive-confidential class but shall be appointed from employees\nof the de…

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

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

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

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

§ 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\namount of such compensation to the credit of any prisoner may be drawn\nby the prisoner during his imprisonment, only upon approval of the\ncommissioner to aid dependent relatives of such prisoner, or for such\not…

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

§ 190. Monthly statement of receipts and expenditures for industries.\nThe warden of each of the state prisons shall, on the first of each\nmonth, make a full detailed statement of all materials, machinery or\nother property procured, and of the cost thereof, and of the\nexpendi…

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