Bill Text: NY S02377 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes peace officers designated by the superintendent of insurance/financial services to execute arrest warrants and search warrants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-21 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S02377 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02377-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2377--B
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 19, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  SEWARD,  LARKIN, FARLEY, GRIFFO -- read twice and
         ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
         Codes  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to  the
         Committee  on  Codes  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 --
         reported favorably from said committee and committed to the  Committee
         on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to authorizing
         peace officers designated to investigate insurance frauds  to  execute
         arrest warrants and search warrants
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2.20 of  the  criminal  procedure
    2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows:
    3    (K) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, EMPLOYEES OF
    4  THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES DESIGNATED AS PEACE OFFICERS BY THE
    5  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  FINANCIAL SERVICES SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO (I) APPLY
    6  FOR AND EXECUTE WARRANTS OF ARREST AS SET FORTH IN ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED
    7  TWENTY  OF  THIS CHAPTER, AND (II) APPLY FOR AND EXECUTE SEARCH WARRANTS
    8  IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE SIX HUNDRED NINETY OF THIS CHAPTER,  WHENEVER
    9  ACTING PURSUANT TO THEIR SPECIAL DUTIES.
   10    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   11  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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