[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City of Watervliet 2-15-1996
as Ord. No. 1635. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The City Council hereby finds that crimes are committed from time to
time within the City of Watervliet by parolees released from penal institutions
and reformatories located within and without the State of New York; that the
presence of such persons within the City of Watervliet is discovered usually
after the commission of crimes; that for the better maintenance or order,
enforcement of the laws, prevention of crime and preservation and care of
the safety, health, comfort, property and general welfare of the inhabitants
of the City of Watervliet, the Chief of Police should be made aware of the
presence of such persons within the City of Watervliet. It is hereby found
and declared, therefore, as a matter of legislative determination, that all
parolees from penal institutions and reformatories located within and without
the State of New York and who are now within the City of Watervliet and those
hereafter coming within the City of Watervliet should immediately report to
the Chief of Police for identification and registration. This chapter is declared
to be a measure designed to prevent crime, to protect and preserve good order,
enforce the laws, protect and preserve and care for the safety, health and
comfort and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Watervliet and
visitors thereto.
All parolees released from any penal institution or reformatory located
within or without the State of New York and who are now within the City of
Watervliet and such as shall hereafter come within the City of Watervliet
shall immediately identify themselves to and shall register with the Chief
of Police of Watervliet and shall give him such information as he shall require
to enable him to identify such person, including the name or names by which
known, past and future addresses, name of the last penal institution or reformatory
from which paroled and the crime or crimes for which he was last confined
or committed.
The Chief of Police shall have the power and authority to communicate
with the proper authorities of each state and the federal government to obtain
such information as he shall deem necessary, in furtherance of the purposes
and declarations of this chapter.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to parolees adjudicated
as youthful offenders or convicted for misdemeanors.
A violation of this chapter shall be a misdemeanor, and punishment therefor
shall be as prescribed for misdemeanors in the Penal Law of the State of New
York.
