STATE OF NEW YORK
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2377--B
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. SEWARD, LARKIN, FARLEY, GRIFFO -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the
Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to authorizing
peace officers designated to investigate insurance frauds to execute
arrest warrants and search 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
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows:
3 (k) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, employees of
4 the department of financial services designated as peace officers by the
5 superintendent of financial services shall have the power to (i) apply
6 for and execute warrants of arrest as set forth in article one hundred
7 twenty of this chapter, and (ii) apply for and execute search warrants
8 in accordance with article six hundred ninety of this chapter, whenever
9 acting pursuant to their special duties.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05752-04-2
