Bill Text: NY S07469 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing the Orleans county jail to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Orleans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - SIGNED CHAP.210 [S07469 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07469-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7469--A
            Cal. No. 944
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
          and  second  report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and
          delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,  restored  to
          third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
          the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing the Orle-
          ans county jail to also be used for the  detention  of  persons  under
          arrest  being  held for arraignment in any court located in the county
          of Orleans
          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-o to read as follows:
     3    2-o. The Orleans county jail may also be used  for  the  detention  of
     4  persons  under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in
     5  the county of Orleans.
     6    § 2. Section 500-c of the correction law is amended by  adding  a  new
     7  subdivision 21 to read as follows:
     8    21. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the county of Orle-
     9  ans  all  the provisions of this section shall equally apply in any case
    10  where the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for arraignment prior
    11  to commitment, as if such person had been judicially  committed  to  the
    12  custody of the sheriff and such person may be held in the Orleans county
    13  jail.
    14    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided further, 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 be
    17  deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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