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The Laws of New York
Consolidated Laws of New York
CHAPTER 6
Civil Rights
ARTICLE 9
Right to Call Police and Emergency Assistance/victim Protections
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Right of property owners to be free of penalty for respecting the rights of an occupant to request police or emergency assistance
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SECTION 94
Limitation on right to request police or emergency assistance prohibited
Civil Rights (CVR) CHAPTER 6, ARTICLE 9
§ 94. Limitation on right to request police or emergency assistance
prohibited. A municipality, municipal authority, landlord or property
owner shall not prohibit, restrict, penalize or in any other way
directly or indirectly limit any person's exercise of rights under this
article and any such limitation shall be void as contrary to public
policy. The protections of this prohibition shall extend to any
residential occupant upon whose behalf a third party has called for
police or emergency assistance.