Authorizes the Cayuga county jail to be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Cayuga.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2915--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 30, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. HELMING, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,
Crime and Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing the Cayu-
ga county jail to also be used for the detention of persons under
arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county
of Cayuga
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 500-a of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 2-t to read as follows:
3 2-t. The Cayuga county jail may also be used for the detention of
4 persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in
5 the county of Cayuga.
6 § 2. Section 500-c of the correction law is amended by adding a new
7 subdivision 26 to read as follows:
8 26. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the county of Cayu-
9 ga, all of the provisions of this section shall equally apply in any
10 case where the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for arraignment
11 prior to commitment, as if such person had been judicially committed to
12 the custody of the sheriff and such person may be held in the Cayuga
13 county jail.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
15 the amendments to section 500-c of the correction law made by section
16 two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
17 deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08909-02-9
