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| May 25, 2022 | referred to codes delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Feb 16, 2022 | advanced to third reading |
| Feb 15, 2022 | 2nd report cal. |
| Feb 14, 2022 | 1st report cal.465 |
| Jan 05, 2022 | referred to codes returned to senate died in assembly |
| Jun 08, 2021 | ordered to third reading rules cal.572 substituted for a6054 |
| Jan 05, 2022 | ordered to third reading cal.199 |
| Jun 08, 2021 | substituted by s3183a rules report cal.572 reported |
| May 19, 2021 | reported referred to rules |
| Mar 05, 2021 | referred to codes |
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A6054 (ACTIVE) - Details
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6054
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 5, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the penal law, in
relation to abolishing citizen's arrests; and to repeal certain
provisions of the criminal procedure law and the family court act
relating thereto
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 140.45 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by
chapter 550 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
§ 140.45 Arrest without a warrant; dismissal of insufficient local crim-
inal court accusatory instrument.
If a local criminal court accusatory instrument filed with a local
criminal court pursuant to section 140.20[,] OR 140.25 [or 140.40] is
not sufficient on its face, as prescribed in section 100.40, and if the
court is satisfied that on the basis of the available facts or evidence
it would be impossible to draw and file an accusatory instrument which
is sufficient on its face, it must dismiss such accusatory instrument
and discharge the defendant.
§ 2. Sections 140.30, 140.35 and 140.40 of the criminal procedure law
are REPEALED.
§ 3. Subdivision 4 of section 35.30 of the penal law, as added by
chapter 73 of the laws of 1968, the opening paragraph and paragraph (a)
as amended by chapter 511 of the laws of 2004 and paragraph (b) as
amended by chapter 264 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as
follows:
4. A private person acting on his or her own account may use physical
force, other than deadly physical force, upon another person when and to
the extent that he or she reasonably believes such to be necessary to
[effect an arrest or to] prevent the escape [from custody] of a person
whom he or she reasonably believes to have committed [an offense] A
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.