Senate Bill S6724

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A602 - Signed by Governor

  • 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-S6724 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A602
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §530.70, CP L

2009-S6724 (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-S6724 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6724 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6724

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 1, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, VOLKER, KRUGER, MAZIARZ, MONSERRATE, ONORA-
  TO,  PADAVAN,  SAMPSON  --  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 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-
tional facility of the county in which such court sits, to  be  detained
there  until not later than the commencement of the next session of such
court occurring on the next business day.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.

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