Assembly Bill A7944

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the designation of a substitute jail for programmatic purposes

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S6154 - 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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2019-A7944 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6154
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §504, Cor L

2019-A7944 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the designation of a substitute jail for programmatic purposes.

2019-A7944 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7944
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 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 the designation of  a
   substitute jail for programmatic purposes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 504  of  the  correction  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  799  of  the  laws  of 1974, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. (A) If there is no jail in a county, or the jail becomes  unfit  or
 unsafe for the confinement of some or all of the inmates, civil or crim-
 inal, or is destroyed by fire or otherwise, or if a pestilential disease
 breaks  out in the jail or in the vicinity of the jail and the physician
 to the jail certifies that it is likely to endanger the health of any or
 all of the inmates in the jail, the state commission of correction, upon
 application, must, by an instrument in writing, filed with the clerk  of
 the  county,  designate another suitable place within the county, or the
 jail of any other county, for the confinement of  some  or  all  of  the
 inmates,  as  the  case  requires.  The  place  so  designated thereupon
 becomes, to all intents and purposes, except as otherwise prescribed  in
 this  article,  the  jail  of the county for which it has been so desig-
 nated, and the purposes expressed  in  the  instrument  designating  the
 same.  The  designation may be amended, modified or revoked by the state
 commission of correction by a subsequent  instrument  in  writing  filed
 with the clerk of the county.
   (B)  IF  TRANSFER  TO  THE  JAIL  OF ANOTHER COUNTY WOULD ALLOW FOR AN
 INMATE'S PARTICIPATION IN BENEFICIAL PROGRAMMING, THE  STATE  COMMISSION
 OF  CORRECTION,  UPON APPLICATION AND THE CONSENT OF SUCH INMATE AND ANY
 INVOLVED SHERIFF, MAY, BY AN INSTRUMENT IN WRITING, FILED WITH THE CLERK
 OF THE COUNTY, DESIGNATE THE JAIL OF SUCH OTHER COUNTY, FOR THE CONFINE-
 MENT OF SUCH INMATE, AS THE CASE REQUIRES. THE JAIL SO DESIGNATED THERE-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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