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Senate Bill S5417

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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2025-S5417 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate 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
2021-2022: S4588
2023-2024: S4112

2025-S5417 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S5417 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5417 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5417
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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.
                                                            LBD09505-01-5

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