§ 215.10 Referral of selected felonies to dispute resolution.

Upon or after arraignment in a local criminal court upon a felony
complaint, or upon or after arraignment in a superior court upon an
indictment or superior court information, and before final disposition
thereof, the court, with the consent of the people and of the defendant,
and with reasonable notice to the victim and an opportunity for the
victim to be heard, may order that the action be adjourned in
contemplation of dismissal, for the purpose of referring the action to a
community dispute center established pursuant to article twenty-one-A of
the judiciary law. Provided, however, that the court may not order any
action adjourned in contemplation of dismissal if the defendant is
charged therein with: (i) a class A felony, or (ii) a violent felony
offense as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law, or (iii) any drug
offense as defined in article two hundred twenty of the penal law, or
(iv) a felony upon the conviction of which defendant must be sentenced
as a second felony offender, a second violent felony offender, or a
persistent violent felony offender pursuant to sections 70.06, 70.04 and
70.08 of the penal law, or a felony upon the conviction of which
defendant may be sentenced as a persistent felony offender pursuant to
section 70.10 of such law.