Bill Text: NY S02870 | 2019-2020 | 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 (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02870 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02870-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2870
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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, and,
    14  in  all  other proceedings, the county attorney for counties outside the
    15  city of New York, or the town attorney for all proceedings prosecuted by
    16  such town attorney for towns contained within Nassau county, and, in the
    17  city of New York the corporation counsel of the city  of  New  York,  to
    18  institute proceedings to collect such fine, restitution or reparation.
    19    § 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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