CHAPTER 126-A DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Emergency Shelter Program
Section 126-A:32-a
126-A:32-a Prohibition on Use of School and Institution Facilities to Shelter Certain Aliens. –
I. In this section:
(a) "Shelter or housing":
(1) Means emergency shelter or housing provided exclusively to specified aliens under order of the federal government, a state, or a unit of local government; and
(2) Does not include short-term emergency shelter made necessary by a specified disaster.
(b) "Short-term" means for a duration not to exceed 72 hours.
(c) "Specified alien" means an alien, as defined in section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a), who has not been admitted, as so defined.
(d) "Specified disaster" means any fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, tidal wave, earthquake, or snowstorm, for which a disaster declaration is made by the federal government or a state.
II. As a condition on receipt of state financial assistance under any applicable program by a district public school, chartered public school, public academy, or an institution of higher learning, the facilities of the school or institution shall not be used to provide shelter or housing for specified aliens.