File #: Int 0169-2002    Version: * Name: Establishing a buffer zone around reproductive health care facilities.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 4/24/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a fixed buffer zone around reproductive health care facilities.
Sponsors: Margarita Lopez, Christine C. Quinn, Gale A. Brewer, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Bill De Blasio, Helen D. Foster, Alan J. Gerson, Bill Perkins, Philip Reed, James Sanders, Jr., Jose M. Serrano, David Yassky, Eva S. Moskowitz, Yvette D. Clarke, Robert Jackson, G. Oliver Koppell
Council Member Sponsors: 16

Int. No. 169

Introduced by Council Members Lopez, Quinn, Brewer, Comrie, DeBlasio, Foster, Gerson, Perkins, Reed, Sanders, Serrano, Yassky and Moskowitz; also Council Members Clarke, Jackson, Koppell

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a fixed buffer zone around reproductive health care facilities.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Section 8-803 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     b. It shall be unlawful for any person to demonstrate or protest in any manner within fifteen feet from the entryway or exit of a reproductive health care facility, or the premises in which such a facility is located.

                     [b.] c. Violations.  Any person who shall violate any provision of subdivision a or b of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both, for a first conviction under this section.  For a second and each subsequent conviction under this section, the penalty shall be a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.

                     § 2. Section 8-805 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     The corporation counsel may bring a civil action on behalf of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive and other appropriate equitable relief in order to prevent or cure a violation of subdivision a or b of section 8-803.

                     § 3. Section 8-806 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     If it is found, in any action brought pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, that two or more of the named defendants acted in concert pursuant to a common plan or design to violate any provision of subdivision a or b of section 8-803, such defendants shall be held jointly and severally liable for any fines or penalties imposed or any damages awarded.

§ 4. This local law shall take effect immediately.