Assembly Bill A602

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to permitting all state-paid uniformed court officers to execute bench warrants

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A602 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6724
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §530.70, CP L

2009-A602 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits all state-paid uniformed court officers to execute bench warrants; eliminates distinctions between court security officers in different parts of the state with regards to issuance of bench warrants.

2009-A602 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   602

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to execution of
  bench warrants

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 530.70 of the criminal procedure
law, as amended by chapter 352 of the laws of 1991, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  2.  A  bench warrant may be addressed to: (a) any police officer whose
geographical area of employment embraces  either  the  place  where  the
offense  charged was allegedly committed or the locality of the court by
which the warrant is issued; or (b) any uniformed court  officer  for  a
court  in  the  city  of  New  York, the county of Nassau, the county of
Suffolk or the county of Westchester OR FOR ANY OTHER COURT that is part
of the unified court system of the state for execution in  the  building
wherein  such  court  officer  is  employed or in the immediate vicinity
thereof. A bench warrant must be  executed  in  the  same  manner  as  a
warrant  of  arrest,  as  provided  in section 120.80, and following the
arrest, such executing police officer  or  court  officer  must  without
unnecessary  delay  bring  the defendant before the court in which it is
returnable; provided, however, if the court in which the  bench  warrant
is  returnable  is  a city, town or village court, and such court is not
available, and the bench warrant is addressed to a police officer,  such
executing  police  officer  must  without  unnecessary  delay  bring the
defendant before an alternate  local  criminal  court,  as  provided  in
subdivision  five  of section 120.90; or if the court in which the bench
warrant is returnable is a superior court, and such court is not  avail-
able,  and  the  bench  warrant  is  addressed to a police officer, such
executing police officer may bring the defendant to  the  local  correc-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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