Senate Bill S6154

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the designation of a substitute jail for programmatic purposes

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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-S6154 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7944
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §504, Cor L

2019-S6154 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S6154 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6154 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6154
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SEPULVEDA -- (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 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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