S05417 Summary:
| BILL NO | S05417 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | LANZA |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §2.20, CP L | |
| Relates to authorizing uniformed court officers and court clerks designated as peace officers to execute arrest warrants. | |
S05417 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5417 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to authorizing uniformed court officers and court clerks designated as peace officers to execute arrest warrants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2.20 of the criminal procedure law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows: 3 (k) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, uniformed 4 court officers and court clerks shall have the power to execute warrants 5 of arrest as set forth in article one hundred twenty of this chapter 6 whenever acting pursuant to their special duties. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 8 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09505-01-5