Bill Text: NY A11247 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the St. Lawrence county jail to be used for detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any local court in the county of St. Lawrence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-18 - referred to correction [A11247 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11247-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11247
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 18, 2018
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jenne) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing  the  St.
          Lawrence  county jail to be used for detention of persons under arrest
          being held for arraignment in any local court in  the  county  of  St.
          Lawrence
          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-s to read as follows:
     3    2-s.  The  St. Lawrence county jail may also be used for the detention
     4  of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court  located
     5  in the county of St. Lawrence.
     6    §  2.  Section  500-c of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     7  subdivision 25 to read as follows:
     8    25. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the county  of  St.
     9  Lawrence  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  St.
    13  Lawrence 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
    17  be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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