Assembly Bill A6464

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing uniformed court officers and court clerks designated as peace officers to execute arrest warrants

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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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2021-A6464 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4588
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2.20, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S5755
2019-2020: S814
2023-2024: A7140, S4112

2021-A6464 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing uniformed court officers and court clerks designated as peace officers to execute arrest warrants.

2021-A6464 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6464
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 17, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to authorizing
   uniformed court officers and court clerks designated as peace officers
   to execute arrest warrants
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2.20 of the criminal procedure law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows:
   (K)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, UNIFORMED
 COURT OFFICERS AND COURT CLERKS SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO EXECUTE WARRANTS
 OF ARREST AS SET FORTH IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED  TWENTY  OF  THIS  CHAPTER
 WHENEVER ACTING PURSUANT TO THEIR SPECIAL DUTIES.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06141-01-1

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