Assembly Bill A4624

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Permits the electronic filing of papers in local criminal courts in certain instances

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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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2019-A4624 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1.20, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2505
2011-2012: A2862
2013-2014: A3972
2015-2016: A1333
2017-2018: A1864
2021-2022: A3177
2023-2024: A3561

2019-A4624 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the electronic filing of papers in local criminal courts in certain instances.

2019-A4624 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4624
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in  relation  to  permitting
   the  electronic  filing  of  papers  in  local  criminal courts, where
   authorized by law
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure
 law, as separately amended by chapters 315, 383 and 729 of the  laws  of
 1972, is amended to read as follows:
   [5.  "Simplified traffic information" means a written accusation, more
 fully defined and described in article one hundred, by a police  officer
 or  other  public  servant authorized by law to issue same, filed with a
 local criminal court,  which,  being  in  a  brief  or  simplified  form
 prescribed  by the commissioner of motor vehicles, charges a person with
 one or more traffic infractions or misdemeanors relating to traffic, and
 which may serve both to commence a criminal action for such offense  and
 as a basis for prosecution thereof.]
   §  2.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 5 of section 1.20 of the criminal
 procedure law, as amended by chapter 661 of the laws of 1972, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (b) "Simplified  traffic  information"  means  a  written  accusation,
 INCLUDING  AN  ACCUSATION WRITTEN IN ELECTRONIC FORM WHERE AUTHORIZED BY
 LAW, by a police officer, or other public servant authorized by  law  to
 issue  same,  more  fully  defined and described in article one hundred,
 filed with a local criminal court, which, being in a brief or simplified
 form prescribed by the commissioner of motor vehicles, charges a  person
 with  one  or more traffic infractions or misdemeanors relating to traf-
 fic, and which may serve both to commence a  criminal  action  for  such
 offense and as a basis for prosecution thereof.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04851-01-9

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