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A10640 Summary:

BILL NOA10640B
 
SAME ASSAME AS S07752
 
SPONSORRules (Aubry)
 
COSPNSRBoyle, Rivera P, Heastie, Lentol, Lifton
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd SS1108, 6801, 6802 & 6803, add S6805, Ins L
 
Relates to charitable bail organizations; authorizes the superintendent to issue certificates to a charitable bail organization to deposit money as bail under certain circumstances.
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A10640 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                        10640--B
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 12, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at request of M. of A. Aubry,
          Boyle, Heastie, Lentol, Lifton) --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee  on  Codes  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --  committee  discharged,

          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to charitable bail organ-
          izations
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  1108 of the insurance law is amended by adding a
     2  new subsection (k) to read as follows:
     3    (k) A charitable bail organization holding a certificate issued by the
     4  superintendent pursuant to section six thousand eight  hundred  five  of
     5  this chapter.
     6    §  2. Subsections (a) and (b) of section 6801 of the insurance law are
     7  amended to read as follows:
     8    (a) (1) Any person, firm or corporation in any court  having  criminal
     9  jurisdiction  or  in  any  criminal  action  or proceeding who shall for

    10  another deposit money or property as bail or execute as surety any  bail
    11  bond who within a period of one month prior thereto shall have made such
    12  a  deposit  or given such bail in more than two cases not arising out of
    13  the same transaction shall be deemed to be doing a bail [bond]  business
    14  and  doing  an  insurance  business as defined in article eleven of this
    15  chapter.
    16    (2) Except for a corporation authorized to write fidelity  and  surety
    17  insurance and to do a bail [bond] business pursuant to the provisions of
    18  article  eleven  of  this  chapter  and otherwise in compliance with all
    19  other requirements of this chapter to do such business or  a  charitable
    20  bail  organization  holding  a  certificate issued by the superintendent
    21  pursuant to section six thousand eight hundred five of this article  and

    22  otherwise  in  compliance with all other requirement of this chapter, no
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16177-04-2

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     1  person, firm or corporation shall engage in [such] a  bail  business  in
     2  this state.
     3    (b)  (1)  No  person,  firm  or  corporation shall in this state do an
     4  insurance business or a bail [bond] business as  defined  in  subsection
     5  (a)  of  this section unless authorized by a license issued and in force
     6  as provided under article eleven of this chapter.
     7    (2) The superintendent may  authorize  a  property/casualty  insurance

     8  company which is authorized to write fidelity and surety insurance to do
     9  a  bail  [bond]  business  in  accordance with the provisions of article
    10  eleven of this chapter, but no individual shall be licensed to  do  such
    11  business.
    12    §  3.  Subsections  (a),  (b), (c), (h) and (m) of section 6802 of the
    13  insurance law, subsection (m) as amended by chapter 285 of the  laws  of
    14  1993, are amended to read as follows:
    15    (a)  No person, firm or corporation or any officer or employee thereof
    16  shall act in this state as an agent or solicitor of an insurer or chari-
    17  table bail organization doing a  bail  [bond]  business  in  soliciting,
    18  negotiating or effectuating any such deposit or bail bond by such insur-
    19  er or charitable bail organization unless licensed by the superintendent

    20  as an agent pursuant to the provisions of this section. Any person, firm
    21  or  corporation so acting without being duly licensed shall be guilty of
    22  a misdemeanor.
    23    (b) Every corporation or charitable bail organization engaging  as  an
    24  insurer  [in the business of giving] doing a bail business in this state
    25  shall procure a license pursuant to the provisions of this  section  for
    26  each  of its employees, officers and agents acting for it in soliciting,
    27  negotiating or effectuating any such deposit or bail bond.
    28    (c) The superintendent may, in [his] the superintendent's  discretion,
    29  issue to any person, firm or corporation a license to act as an agent of
    30  an  authorized  insurer  or charitable bail organization, in soliciting,
    31  negotiating or effectuating any such deposit or bail bond by such insur-

    32  er or any such deposit by such charitable bail organization.
    33    (h) In order to determine the  competence  of  each  applicant  for  a
    34  license  or  a sublicense, the superintendent shall require every appli-
    35  cant to pass to the satisfaction of the superintendent a  written  exam-
    36  ination  to  be  prepared  by  the superintendent and appropriate to the
    37  doing of a bail [bond] business. If the applicant or any proposed subli-
    38  censee intends to maintain an office or solicit,  negotiate,  effectuate
    39  or deposit bail on behalf of another in any city containing a population
    40  of more than one hundred seventy-five thousand, such written examination
    41  may  inquire  into the applicant's knowledge of the pertinent provisions
    42  of the criminal procedure law and the pertinent rules and  practices  of
    43  the courts and district attorneys' offices within the area of the appli-

    44  cant's proposed operations. Such examination shall be held at such times
    45  and places as the superintendent shall determine.
    46    (m)  Every  license  issued  to  an  officer, employee, or agent of an
    47  insurer or charitable bail organization doing  a  bail  [bond]  business
    48  pursuant  to  this  section  shall be for a term expiring on the thirty-
    49  first day of December of even numbered years and may be renewed for  the
    50  ensuing two calendar years upon the filing of a renewal application. The
    51  superintendent  may  refuse  to  issue  any such license if in [his] the
    52  superintendent's judgment such refusal will best promote  the  interests
    53  of  the  people of this state. Every such licensee and sublicensee shall
    54  file an information statement on  or  before  the  thirty-first  day  of

    55  December  of  each  even  numbered  year, the form and subject matter of
    56  which may be prescribed by the superintendent.

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     1    § 4. Section 6803 of the insurance law is amended to read as follows:
     2    §  6803.  Bail bond business; cities in excess of one hundred seventy-
     3  five thousand. (a) An insurance corporation or charitable bail organiza-
     4  tion engaged in the bail business [of giving bail] in a city  containing
     5  a population of more than one hundred seventy-five thousand inhabitants,
     6  according  to  the  last  preceding federal census or state enumeration,
     7  shall file with the district attorney of each county contained  in  such
     8  city or in which such a city is contained, the clerks of the supreme and

     9  county  courts  and  the  clerk of the criminal court of the city of New
    10  York, certified statements of the names of  all  persons  authorized  to
    11  execute  bail  bonds  or  effectuating  such deposit on its behalf or to
    12  solicit such  business  as  agent,  together  with  a  certificate  duly
    13  executed  by  the  superintendent,  certifying with respect to each such
    14  person, that such person has been licensed by the superintendent  pursu-
    15  ant to section six thousand eight hundred two of this article.
    16    (b)  The  court  or  other  public officer concerned in the matter may
    17  examine under oath any insurer or charitable bail organization  doing  a
    18  bail [bond] business or a depositor of security for bail, or the officer
    19  or  agent of any such insurer, charitable bail organization or depositor

    20  proposing to execute a bail bond, or to make such  deposit,  as  to  the
    21  indemnity, if any, deposited or otherwise provided directly or indirect-
    22  ly  against loss by reason of the deposit or bail bond and as to the fee
    23  charged, if any, for the giving of such bond. The court or other  public
    24  officer concerned in the matter may refuse to accept such bond or depos-
    25  it  if  satisfied that any portion of such security has been feloniously
    26  obtained by the defendant, or that the provisions of this or  any  other
    27  section  of law have been violated, or that the person or persons indem-
    28  nifying such insurer or depositor shall have  within  a  period  of  one
    29  month  prior  thereto given indemnification or security for like purpose
    30  in more than two cases not arising out of the same transaction and  that
    31  such  person  is  not  duly licensed by the superintendent in accordance

    32  with the provisions of this chapter.
    33    § 5. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 6805 to read
    34  as follows:
    35    § 6805. Charitable bail organization. (a)(1)  The  superintendent  may
    36  issue  a  certificate to a charitable bail organization to deposit money
    37  as bail for another in accordance with the provisions  of  this  section
    38  only  if  such entity is a non-profit organization organized pursuant to
    39  the  United  States  internal  revenue  code  as  described  by  section
    40  501(c)(3)  of  title  26  of  the United States code, is registered as a
    41  charity pursuant to article seven-A of the executive law and is  current
    42  on such registration.
    43    (2)  The  application  for  a charitable bail organization certificate

    44  shall be in such form or forms, and shall contain relevant  information,
    45  as the superintendent shall prescribe.
    46    (3) The superintendent may refuse to issue a charitable bail organiza-
    47  tion  certificate if, in the superintendent's judgment, an applicant, or
    48  an officer or director of the applicant, has: (A) demonstrated  untrust-
    49  worthiness  or  incompetence;  (B)  given  cause  for  the revocation or
    50  suspension of the certificate; or (C) failed to comply with any  prereq-
    51  uisite for the issuance of the certificate.
    52    (4)  A  charitable  bail organization certificate shall be valid for a
    53  term of five years from issuance. At the time of application  for  every
    54  such  certificate, and for every renewal thereof, an applicant shall pay

    55  to the superintendent a sum of one thousand dollars payable each term or

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     1  fraction of a term, provided, however, that in his  or  her  discretion,
     2  the superintendent may waive such fee.
     3    (5)  If an application for a renewal certificate shall have been filed
     4  with the superintendent before the expiration of such certificate,  then
     5  the  certificate  sought  to be renewed shall continue in full force and
     6  effect either until the issuance by the superintendent  or  the  renewal
     7  certificate  applied  for  or  until  five days after the superintendent
     8  shall have refused to issue such renewal certificate.
     9    (6) The superintendent may refuse to renew or may revoke or suspend  a

    10  charitable  bail organization certificate for a reasonable period deter-
    11  mined by the superintendent if, after notice  and  hearing,  the  super-
    12  intendent  determines  that  an  applicant or licensee, or an officer or
    13  director of the applicant or licensee, has: (A) demonstrated untrustwor-
    14  thiness or incompetence; (B) violated this section or  authorized  regu-
    15  lations promulgated thereunder; or (C) failed to stay current with their
    16  registration  as  a charity pursuant to article seven-A of the executive
    17  law. Any hearing conducted under this  section  shall  comply  with  the
    18  requirements  of  section  three  hundred five of the financial services
    19  law.
    20    (b) A charitable bail organization shall:

    21    (1) only deposit money as bail in the amount of two  thousand  dollars
    22  or less for a defendant charged with one or more misdemeanors, provided,
    23  however, that such organization shall not execute as surety any bond for
    24  any defendant;
    25    (2) only deposit money as bail on behalf of a person who is financial-
    26  ly  unable  to  post  bail,  which may constitute a portion or the whole
    27  amount of such bail;
    28    (3) only deposit money as bail in one county in this state.  Provided,
    29  however,  that  a  charitable bail organization whose principal place of
    30  business is located within a city of a million or more may deposit money
    31  as bail in the five counties comprising such city; and

    32    (4) not charge a premium or receive compensation for acting as a char-
    33  itable bail organization.
    34    (c) The superintendent may promulgate  regulations  implementing  this
    35  section.
    36    §  6.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    37  have become a law.
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