STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5512--A Cal. No. 1034 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including community centers in the definition of "public place" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 240.00 of the penal law is amended 2 to read as follows: 3 1. "Public place" means a place to which the public or a substantial 4 group of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to, high- 5 ways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, parks, 6 playgrounds, community centers, and hallways, lobbies and other portions 7 of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or apartments 8 designed for actual residence. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10752-03-7