This motion adds authority for the court to direct an offender to pay an amount to environmental or other groups to assist in their work in the community where the offence was committed.
First of all, I would accept the earlier friendly amendment that we discussed, in adding into this proposed paragraph 16.(1)(b.5), as we see it before us, in amendment G-15. After the words, “their work in”, add the words “or for”, so that it reads, “their work in or for a community near the place”.
This provision already existed in the form we see it, without that amendment, at least under CEPA, and it should have been added to this statute as well but it was inadvertently omitted.
With that friendly amendment, I would move G-15 as we see it before us.