STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7653 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SALKA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the uniform justice court act, in relation to allowing justices of criminal courts in the county of Madison to preside in any court for the limited purposes of arraignments and appearance proceedings pursuant to a bench warrant The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 106 of the uniform justice court act is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows: 3 12. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section, 4 a justice of a local criminal court situated in the county of Madison 5 may preside as the justice of his or her court anywhere in the county of 6 Madison for the limited purposes of arraignments and/or appearance 7 proceedings pursuant to a bench warrant, provided that such arraignments 8 and/or appearance proceedings are held in a courtroom wherever possible, 9 or other suitable facility open to the public, and provided further that 10 any municipality providing such facilities shall have consented to such 11 usage. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11409-01-9