File #: Int 0645-1999    Version: * Name: Reproductive health care facilities, Buffer Zones
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 10/27/1999
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: Kathryn E. Freed, June M. Eisland, Karen Koslowitz, Margarita Lopez, Helen M. Marshall, Michael C. Nelson, Bill Perkins, Christine C. Quinn, Philip Reed, Angel Rodriguez, Lawrence A. Warden, Guillermo Linares, Julia Harrison, Sheldon S. Leffler, Walter L. McCaffrey, Stanley E. Michels, Gifford Miller
Council Member Sponsors: 17
Attachments: 1. Hearing Transcript
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Kathryn E. Freed City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/21/2001*Kathryn E. Freed Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/21/2001*Kathryn E. Freed Committee on Public Safety Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/1999*Kathryn E. Freed Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/1999*Kathryn E. Freed City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/1999*Kathryn E. Freed City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 645

Introduced by Council Members Freed, Eisland, Koslowitz, Lopez, Marshall, Nelson, Perkins, Quinn, Reed, Rodriguez, Warden and Linares; also Council Members Harrison, Leffler, McCaffrey and Michels -- read and referred to the Committee on Public Safety.

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.

 

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