New York A 10638: Relates to moving the division of cemeteries from the department of state to the department of health

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A10638 Summary:

BILL NOA10638 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORColton

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §21-124.2, NYC Ad Cd

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Prohibits the location of homeless shelters within five hundred feet of a school, place of worship or transit facility; provides an exception for a shelter program or food program operated by a place of worship.

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03/13/2026referred to cities

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10638

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 13, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Cities

 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
 relation to the location of homeless shelters

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 2 by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
 3 § 21-124.2 Location of homeless shelters. a. No homeless shelter shall
 4 be established within five hundred feet of any school, place of worship
 5 or transit facility.
 6 b. For the purposes of this section:
 7 (1) "place of worship" means a building occupied exclusively as a
 8 school, church, synagogue, mosque, temple or other place of religious
 9 worship;
 10 (2) "school" includes a public or private kindergarten, pre-kindergar-
 11 ten, elementary or secondary school; and
 12 (3) "transit facility" means a rapid transit railroad, omnibus line or
 13 any other facility or any railroad in the city used for local service in
 14 the transportation of passengers as common carriers for hire or in the
 15 transportation of the United States mail or personal property, and any
 16 portion thereof and the rights, leaseholds or other interests therein,
 17 together with the devices and appurtenances, facilities and equipment
 18 thereof and power plants and other instrumentalities used or useful
 19 therefor or in connection therewith.
 20 c. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a shelter program
 21 or food program operated by a place of worship.
 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 23 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15203-02-6

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