Bill Text: NY A03545 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants and appearance tickets upon a youth; provides for the police officer to immediately notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides further that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety of such youth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-13 - ordered to third reading rules cal.151 [A03545 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03545-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3545--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY,
          COOK, HOOPER, MAGEE -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Children  and Families -- recommitted to the Committee on Children and
          Families in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  reported  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to establishing
          the Chance to Help Notification Act
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "chance to
     2  help notification act".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 120.90 of the criminal procedure law, as
     4  amended by section 16 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017,  is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    7.  Upon arresting a juvenile offender or adolescent offender or youth
     7  as defined in subdivision one of section 720.10  of  this  chapter,  the
     8  police  officer  shall  immediately  notify  the  parent or other person
     9  legally responsible for his or her care or the person with  whom  he  or
    10  she  is  domiciled,  that  the  juvenile offender or youth or adolescent
    11  offender or youth has been arrested, and the location  of  the  facility
    12  where he or she is being detained, provided that the police officer need
    13  not  notify  the  parent  or  other  person legally responsible for such
    14  youth's care or the person with whom he or she is  domiciled  when  such
    15  youth  is  not also a juvenile offender and the notification of a parent
    16  or other person would endanger the health or safety of such youth.
    17    § 3. Subdivision 6 of section 140.20 of the criminal procedure law, as
    18  amended by section 20 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017,  is
    19  amended to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08383-02-8

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     1    6.  Upon arresting a juvenile offender or youth as defined in subdivi-
     2  sion one of section 720.10 of  this  chapter  or  a  person  sixteen  or
     3  commencing  October first, two thousand nineteen, seventeen years of age
     4  without a warrant, the  police  officer  shall  immediately  notify  the
     5  parent  or  other  person legally responsible for his or her care or the
     6  person with whom he or she is domiciled, that such  offender  or  person
     7  has  been  arrested, and the location of the facility where he or she is
     8  being detained, provided that the police officer  need  not  notify  the
     9  parent  or other person legally responsible for such youth's care or the
    10  person with whom he or she is domiciled when such youth is  not  also  a
    11  juvenile offender and the notification of a parent or other person would
    12  endanger  the health or safety of such youth.  If the officer determines
    13  that it is necessary to question a juvenile offender or such person, the
    14  officer must take him or her to  a  facility  designated  by  the  chief
    15  administrator  of  the courts as a suitable place for the questioning of
    16  children or, upon the consent  of  a  parent  or  other  person  legally
    17  responsible  for  the care of the juvenile or such person, to his or her
    18  residence and there question him or her for a reasonable period of time.
    19  A juvenile or such person shall  not  be  questioned  pursuant  to  this
    20  section  unless  he or she and a person required to be notified pursuant
    21  to this subdivision, if present, have been advised:
    22    (a) of the juvenile offender's, youth's  or  such  person's  right  to
    23  remain silent;
    24    (b)  that  the statements made by him or her may be used in a court of
    25  law;
    26    (c) of his or her right to have an attorney present at such  question-
    27  ing; and
    28    (d)  of  his  or her right to have an attorney provided for him or her
    29  without charge if he or she is unable to afford counsel.
    30    In determining the suitability  of  questioning  and  determining  the
    31  reasonable  period  of  time for questioning such a juvenile offender or
    32  person, his or her age, the presence or absence of his or her parents or
    33  other persons legally responsible for his or her care  and  notification
    34  pursuant  to this subdivision shall be included among relevant consider-
    35  ations.
    36    § 4. Section 150.20 of the criminal procedure law is amended by adding
    37  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    38    4. Upon issuing to and serving an  appearance  ticket  as  defined  in
    39  subdivision  one  of  section  150.10  of  this  article upon a youth as
    40  defined in subdivision one of section 720.10 of this chapter, the police
    41  officer shall notify the parent or other person legally responsible  for
    42  his  or  her  care  or the person with whom he or she is domiciled, that
    43  such youth has been served with an appearance ticket, the time set forth
    44  in such appearance ticket for the youth's appearance before  a  criminal
    45  court  and  the offense of which he or she is charged, provided that the
    46  police officer need not  notify  the  parent  or  other  person  legally
    47  responsible  for  such youth's care or the person with whom he or she is
    48  domiciled when such youth is  not  also  a  juvenile  offender  and  the
    49  notification  of  a  parent or other person would endanger the health or
    50  safety of such youth.
    51    § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    52  ing  the  date  on  which  it  shall have become a law; provided that if
    53  sections 16 and 20 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of  2017  shall
    54  not  have  taken  effect on such date, then sections one and two of this
    55  act shall take effect on the same date and in the same  manner  as  such
    56  sections of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017 take effect.
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