City of Albany, NY
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2023-12-04
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The Code
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 255 Peace and Good Order
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Article III Registration and Identification of Parolees
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Ambulance Services
- Ch 8 Police Information Reward Program
- Ch 11 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 15 Arms and Seal of City
- Ch 18 Bonds of City Officials; Facsimile Signature and Seal; Notes
- Ch 20 (Reserved)
- Ch 24 Claims Against City
- Ch 30 Courts and Legal Procedures
- Ch 34 Meetings
- Ch 35 Appointees to Public Bodies; Removal From Office
- Ch 38 Defense and Indemnification of Employees
- Ch 42 Departments and Commissions
- Ch 48 Equal Opportunity Protections
- Ch 54 Financial Disclosure
- Ch 57 Fiscal Year and Annual Estimate
- Ch 62 Labor
- Ch 68 Merit Award Board
- Ch 74 Printing; Publication; Publicity
- Ch 75 Policy Documents Repository
- Ch 82 Real Property Within City
- Ch 90 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 98 Youth Bureau
- Ch 99 Website Financial Data
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 105 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 111 Amusements
- Ch 115 Animals
- Ch 121 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 127 Bingo
- Ch 133 Building Construction
- Ch 133A Building Construction and Housing: Special Provisions
- Ch 135 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 137 Bulletin Boards
- Ch 141 Businesses
- Ch 142 Business Improvement Districts
- Ch 147 Collateral Loan Brokers
- Ch 151 Commercial Standards
- Ch 152 Conversion Therapy
- Ch 153 Community Choice Aggregation
- Ch 161 Economic Development Zone
- Ch 167 Elections
- Ch 171 Electricity
- Ch 175 Elevators
- Ch 181 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 183 Equity Agenda
- Ch 187 Fair Housing
- Ch 188 Fair Hotel Consumer Practices
- Ch 193 Firearms and Ammunition
- Ch 197 Fire Prevention
- Ch 203 Freshwater Wetlands
- Ch 211 Grading and Mining
- Ch 217 Handbills
- Ch 223 Health
- Ch 231 Housing
- Ch 239 Junk Dealers and Scrap Metal Processing
- Ch 245 Licenses
- Ch 246 Newsracks
- Ch 247 Parking Violations Amnesty Program - 2015
- Ch 251 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 255 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 255 Art III Registration and Identification of Parolees
- § 255-12 Purpose.
- § 255-13 Identification and registration with Chief of Police.
- § 255-14 Communication with state and federal government.
- § 255-15 Youthful offenders.
- § 255-16 Penalties for offenses.
- Ch 258 Penalties
- Ch 259 Pesticides
- Ch 261 Plumbing
- Ch 267 Pollution
- Ch 270 Public Pay Telephones
- Ch 272 Public Transportation
- Ch 293 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 299 Sewers
- Ch 303 Sidewalk and Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 307 (Reserved)
- Ch 313 Solid Waste
- Ch 319 Store Sales
- Ch 323 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 329 Tattoo Parlors
- Ch 333 Taxation
- Ch 341 Transient Retail Businesses
- Ch 345 Trees and Vegetation
- Ch 353 Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 357 Vehicles, Off-Road
- Ch 359 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 363 Vendors
- Ch 371 Water and Waterways
- Ch 373 Youth Protection Against Tobacco Promotion
- Ch 375 Unified Sustainable Development
- Appendix
- Ch A377 Certain Territory Located in Town of Colonie
- Ch A381 Certain Territory Located in Town of Bethlehem
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The Common Council hereby finds that crimes
are committed from time to time within the City of Albany 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 Albany is discovered usually after the commission
of crimes; that for the better maintenance of 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 Albany, the Chief of Police should be made aware of the
presence of such persons within the City of Albany. 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 Albany and those hereafter coming within the City of Albany
should immediately report to the Chief of Police for identification
and registration. This article 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 Albany 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 Albany and such as shall hereafter
come within the City of Albany shall immediately identify themselves
to and shall register with the Chief of Police of Albany 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 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 article.
The provisions of this article shall not apply
to parolees adjudicated as youthful offenders or convicted for misdemeanors.
A violation of this article shall be a misdemeanor,
and punishment therefor shall be as prescribed for misdemeanors in
the Penal Law of the State of New York.
