§ 45-52-230 — Residential Limitations on Criminal Sex Offenders

(a) No adult or unrelated juvenile criminal sex offender may establish a residence or other living accommodation in a residence where another criminal sex offender whose name appears on the Morgan County Sheriff’s official published sex offender list resides.
(b) No adult criminal sex offender whose name appears on the county sheriff’s official published sex offender list may establish residence or other living accommodations unless there is a distance of 100 yards or more from the residence of any other adult criminal sex offender.
(c) The owner or lessee of the property who knowingly, willingly, or intentionally permits a violation of subsection (a) or subsection (b) shall be subject to a civil penalty of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each violation. When collected, those penalties shall be equally distributed to the county sheriff’s department and the office of the district attorney of the county.
(d) An owner or lessee of property shall not be in violation of subsection (a) or subsection (b) if the sex offender is the spouse or child of the owner or lessor or if the spouse or child is the owner or lessee of the property.
(e) An owner of property shall not be in violation of subsection (a) or subsection (b) where the application for a lease or the lease itself provides a signed statement by the lessee that the lessee is not a convicted sex offender.
(f) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 20A of Title 15 to the contrary, a sex offender shall not be in violation of subsection (a) or subsection (b) if the sex offender is residing at a treatment facility that is a residential home health care facility approved as such by an agency of the state.

Legislative History

(Act 2013-320, p. 1135, § 2.)