Assembly Bill A10159

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to remedying inconsistent definitions and other technical errors

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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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2017-A10159 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8048
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §40, Cor L

2017-A10159 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to remedying the inconsistent definitions for local correctional facility and municipal official and fixes other technical errors.

2017-A10159 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10159
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 21, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WEPRIN -- (at request of the State Commission of
   Correction) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to remedying  inconsist-
   ent definitions and other technical errors
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 4 of section 40 of the  correction  law,
 subdivision  2  as  amended by section 78-a of part WWW of chapter 59 of
 the laws of 2017, subdivision 4 as added by chapter 865 of the  laws  of
 1975, are amended to read as follows:
   2.  "Local  correctional  facility"  means any [county] jail, [county]
 penitentiary, [county lockup, city jail, police station  jail,  town  or
 village  jail  or  lockup]  STATE,  COUNTY  OR  MUNICIPAL  LOCKUP, court
 detention pen, hospital  prison  ward  or  specialized  secure  juvenile
 detention facility for older youth.
   4.  "Municipal  official"  means  (a)  the  sheriff  or, where a local
 correctional facility is under the jurisdiction of a county  department,
 the  head  of such department, and clerk of the board of supervisors, in
 the case of a county jail; (b)  the  sheriff  or  other  officer  having
 custody  or  administrative  jurisdiction  and the clerk of the board of
 supervisors, in the case of a county penitentiary; (c) the clerk of  the
 board  of  supervisors in the case of a county lockup; (d) the mayor and
 the city clerk, in the case of a city  jail  or  [police  station  jail]
 LOCKUP;  (e)  the supervisor and town clerk, in the case of a town [jail
 or] lockup; (f) the mayor and village clerk, in the case  of  a  village
 [jail or] lockup; (g) the clerk of the board of supervisors of the coun-
 ty  wherein  located  and  the officer having custody or control, in the
 case of a court detention pen or a hospital prison ward.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14463-01-8

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