Relates to authorizing the Schenectady county correctional facility to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Schenectady.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4518
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 25, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing the Sche-
nectady county correctional facility to also be used for the detention
of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court
located in the county of Schenectady
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-n to read as follows:
3 2-n. The Schenectady county correctional facility may also be used for
4 the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any
5 court located in the county of Schenectady.
6 § 2. Section 500-c of the correction law is amended by adding a new
7 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
8 20. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the county of Sche-
9 nectady all 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 Schenecta-
13 dy county correctional facility.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided further, 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17 deemed repealed therewith.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.
LBD10160-01-5
