2023 New York Laws › CVR - Civil Rights › Article 9 - Right to Call Police and Emergency Assistance/victim Protections › 90 - Legislative Findings.

§  90.  Legislative findings. No victim of domestic violence, or other
  person threatened with violence or in jeopardy of harm, should  fail  to
  access  police  or  emergency assistance when needed because of the fear
  that doing so may result in losing their  housing  through  eviction  or
  other  actions  to  remove  them  from  the property. Some local laws or
  policies have the  effect  of  treating  such  requests  for  police  or
  emergency  aid  as  a  disturbance  constituting  a "public nuisance" or
  otherwise treating the individual faced with the violence and in need of
  assistance as an undesirable tenant  or  undesirable  influence  on  the
  neighborhood  based  upon  a call for help to their home. Legislation is
  needed to assure that victims of violence or threats of harm or violence
  are not penalized in  relation  to  any  law  enforcement  activity  and
  intervention  necessary  to  address  offender accountability and victim
  safety.
Municipalities throughout the state have increasingly begun  to  adopt
  local   laws  and  ordinances  to  address  public  nuisances  or  other
  intrusions on the quiet enjoyment of their  residents  and  communities.
  Despite  their  intent  to aid communities, overly broad ordinances have
  instead had a harmful chilling effect deterring victims of violence  and
  crime  from  accessing  police  assistance  and  have jeopardized public
  safety. They also can unfairly penalize  landlords  when  their  tenants
  need  emergency  assistance.  Courts  in  New York and other states have
  found such public ordinances to be  unconstitutional  because  of  these
  harms.  Moreover,  the  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  issued guidance in 2016 on how these ordinances  can  violate  the  Fair
  Housing  Act's  prohibitions  on  discrimination  based  on  sex,  race,
  disability, and national origin.
Given  the  negative  impact  that  certain  provisions  have  on  the
  community  at  large,  and  to  victims of crime in particular, remedial
  legislation is necessary that will both protect the rights  of  domestic
  violence  and  crime  victims  and others to access essential police and
  emergency assistance, as  well  as  preserve  the  locality's  right  to
  address conduct that may undermine the community's safety or integrity.
The  legislature  therefore  finds that it is desirable to clarify the
  law in this area in order to protect people from violence and crime.
The legislature further finds that there is  a  need  to  assure  that
  victims of violence, including persons threatened with harm or violence,
  have  a  clear  right to access assistance to protect personal or public
  safety.
The legislature further finds that clarification  in  this  area  will
  advance  the  state's interest in stopping crime and further the aims of
  penal laws that depend on citizens to report incidents of crime  to  law
  enforcement.
The  legislature  finally  finds  that  there is a need to assure that
  people  who  need   emergency   assistance,   including   persons   with
  disabilities,  have  a  clear right to access assistance without fear of
  penalty or reprisal.
With this remedial legislation the  legislature  specifically  intends
  that  the coverage of this article includes, but is not limited to, laws
  or ordinances that use any form  of  cumulative  point  system  for  the
  purpose  of  identifying any persons or properties who or which would be
  subject to municipal enforcement action.