STATE OF NEW YORK
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5593
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 8, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- (at request of the Office of Court Adminis-
tration) -- 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 the detention of
individuals in a county jail pending a first court appearance in an
off-hours arraignment part
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. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the chief
4 administrator of the courts establishes an off-hours arraignment part in
5 a county in accordance with paragraph (w) of subdivision one of section
6 two hundred twelve of the judiciary law, the county correctional facili-
7 ty may be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for
8 arraignment in such part.
9 § 2. Section 500-c of the correction law is amended by adding a new
10 subdivision 26 to read as follows:
11 26. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the chief admin-
12 istrator of the courts establishes an off-hours arraignment part in a
13 county in accordance with paragraph (w) of subdivision one of section
14 two hundred twelve of the judiciary law, all the provisions of this
15 section shall equally apply in any case where the sheriff is holding a
16 person under arrest for arraignment prior to commitment, as if such
17 person had been judicially committed to the custody of the sheriff and
18 such person may be held in such county correctional facility.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that
20 the amendments to section 500-c of the correction law made by section
21 two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
22 deemed to repeal therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09688-01-9
