Bill Text: NY S07404 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - SIGNED CHAP.487 [S07404 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07404-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7404
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing the Tioga
          correctional  facility  to  also  be used for the detention of persons
          under arrest being held for arraignment in any court  located  in  the
          county of Tioga
          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  Tioga county correctional facility may also be used for the
     4  detention of persons under arrest being  held  for  arraignment  in  any
     5  court located in the county of Tioga.
     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 Tioga
     9  all the provisions of this section shall equally apply in any case where
    10  the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for  arraignment  prior  to
    11  commitment,  as  if  such  person  had  been judicially committed to the
    12  custody of the sheriff and such person may be held in the  Tioga  county
    13  correctional facility.
    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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