Senate Bill S8048

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to remedying inconsistent definitions and other technical errors

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A10159 - 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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2017-S8048 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10159
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §40, Cor L

2017-S8048 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S8048 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8048 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8048
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 22, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GALLIVAN -- (at request of the State Commission of
   Correction) -- 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 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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