Bill Text: NY A02259 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires town attorneys to institute proceedings to collect fines, restitution or reparation in towns contained within Nassau county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - referred to codes [A02259 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02259-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2259

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RA, MIKULIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          town  attorneys to institute proceedings to collect fines, restitution
          or reparation in towns contained within Nassau county

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 420.20 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by
     2  chapter 290 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
     3  §  420.20  Collection  of  fines, restitution or reparation imposed upon
     4               corporations.
     5    Where a corporation is sentenced to pay a fine, restitution or repara-
     6  tion, the fine, restitution or reparation  must  be  paid  at  the  time
     7  sentence  is imposed.   If the fine, restitution or reparation is not so
     8  paid, it may be collected in the same manner as a judgment  in  a  civil
     9  action,  and if execution issued upon such judgment be returned unsatis-
    10  fied an action may be brought in the name of the people of the state  of
    11  New  York  to procure a judgment sequestering the property of the corpo-
    12  ration, as provided by the business corporation law.  It is the duty  of
    13  the attorney general in all criminal proceedings prosecuted by [him] the
    14  attorney general, and, in all other proceedings, the county attorney for
    15  counties  outside  the  city  of  New York, or the town attorney for all
    16  proceedings prosecuted by such town attorney for towns contained  within
    17  Nassau  county,  and, in the city of New York the corporation counsel of
    18  the city of New York, to institute proceedings  to  collect  such  fine,
    19  restitution or reparation.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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