Title CNT, County

§ 670. Application of article. 1. The provisions of this article\ninsofar as they are (a) in conflict with or in limitation of a provision\nof any alternative form of county government heretofore or hereafter\nadopted by a county pursuant to section one of article nine of the\nc…

§ 671. General duties of coroner, or coroner and coroner's physician,\nor medical examiner; additional duties may be directed. 1. The coroner,\nor if he is not a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this\nstate, the coroner and a coroner's physician, together, or in c…

§ 672. Mutual aid agreements for coroners' services. 1. Two or more\ncounties are authorized to enter into written mutual aid agreements for\nthe provision of services provided by the county coroner's office or\noffice of the medical examiner in such counties. Each county shall …

§ 673. Deaths concerning which a coroner, coroner and coroner's\nphysician or medical examiner has jurisdiction to investigate. 1. A\ncoroner or medical examiner has jurisdiction and authority to\ninvestigate the death of every person dying within his county, or whose\nbody is f…

§ 674. Manner of investigation. 1. When a coroner or medical examiner\nis informed of the occurrence of a death within his jurisdiction as\ndefined in section six hundred seventy-three of this article, he shall\ngo at once to the place where the body is and take charge of it. If…

§ 674-a. Manner of investigation when decedent is a donor of an\nanatomical gift. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the\ncontrary, if the decedent who is under the jurisdiction of the coroner\nor medical examiner as defined in this chapter is a donor of all or part\nof …

§ 675. Advice, consultation, assistance, examinations, analyses and\nreports. 1. A coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner shall\nhave authority when necessary in his opinion to consult with and to\nrequest advice, consultation or other assistance from any officer of a\…

§ 676. Employment of stenographer. When the services of a stenographer\nshall not have been provided by the board of supervisors, or if a\nstenographer so provided is not available, the coroner, coroner's\nphysician or medical examiner shall have power to employ a stenographer\n…

§ 677. Records; reports. 1. The writing made by the coroner, or by the\ncoroner and coroner's physician, or by the medical examiner, at the\nplace where he takes charge of the body, shall be filed promptly in the\noffice of the coroner or medical examiner. The testimony of witne…

§ 678. Disposition of money or property found on deceased. 1. Money\nand other property found upon the body of the deceased, not required for\nthe purposes of the investigation, shall be delivered to the county\ntreasurer. Unless claimed in the meantime by the legal representati…

* § 679. Training requirements for coroners and coroner's deputies.\nEach coroner and coroner's deputy, whether elected or appointed pursuant\nto section four hundred of this chapter, shall attend and successfully\ncomplete state-approved courses in medical-legal investigation. …

§ 700. District attorney; powers and duties. 1. Except as provided in\nsection seven hundred one of this chapter, it shall be the duty of every\ndistrict attorney to conduct all prosecutions for crimes and offenses\ncognizable by the courts of the county for which he or she shal…

§ 701. Special district attorney. 1. Whenever the district attorney of\nany county and such assistants as he or she may have shall not be in\nattendance at a term of any court of record, which he or she is by law\nrequired to attend, or are disqualified from acting in a particul…

§ 702. Assistant district attorneys. 1. The board of supervisors shall\nhave power to authorize the district attorney to appoint one or more\nassistant district attorneys. Every such appointment shall be in a\nwriting filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk. The per…

§ 702-a. Appointment of special assistant district attorneys during a\nperiod of civil disorder. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the\ncontrary, a district attorney in any county, including any county within\nthe City of New York, may, during a period of civil disorder…

§ 703. Employment of counsel. With the written approval of the county\njudge of a county in which an indictment has been found for a capital or\nother crime which presents unusual difficulty upon the trial thereof,\nthe district attorney may employ counsel to assist him upon suc…

§ 703-a. Employment of stenographer. Whenever the district attorney of\nany county in the performance of his duties shall be required to\nprosecute a contested criminal proceeding before a magistrate of a town\nor village, unless pursuant to law a stenographer be regularly emplo…

§ 705. Prosecution fund. The board of supervisors shall have power to\nappropriate and set aside a fund for the payment in advance of audit of\nexpenditures incurred by the district attorney, or attorney general\nacting under section sixty-two of the executive law, necessarily\n…

§ 706. Cost and expense of removed criminal trials. Whenever the trial\nof an indictment has been transferred from the county in which the\nindictment was found to some other county, the cost and expense of such\ntrial shall be a charge upon the county in which the indictment wa…

§ 707. Payments of expert fees in criminal cases in which the death\npenalty may be imposed. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to\nthe contrary, upon a finding in an ex parte proceeding that expert\nservices are reasonably necessary for the prosecution of the case\nw…

§ 716. Public defender; appointment; term; other employees. The board\nof supervisors of any county may create an office of public defender, or\nmay authorize a contract between its county and one or more other such\ncounties to create an office of public defender to serve such …

§ 717. Public defender; duties. 1. The public defender shall\nrepresent, without charge, at the request of the defendant, or by order\nof the court with the consent of the defendant, each indigent defendant\nwho is charged with a crime as defined in section seven hundred\ntwenty…

§ 718. Appointment of other counsel. Nothing contained herein shall\npreclude a court on its own motion or upon application by the public\ndefender or by the indigent defendant or person described in section two\nhundred sixty-two or section eleven hundred twenty of the family c…

§ 719. Expenses. If a public defender serves more than one county, the\nexpenses of salaries, maintenance and operation of his office shall be\nshared by the participating counties in accordance with the provisions\nof the agreement establishing the office. Expenses incidental t…

§ 720. Annual report. The public defender shall make an annual report\nto the board or boards of supervisors covering all cases handled by his\noffice during the preceding year.\n

§ 721. Separability. If any provision of this article or the\napplication of such provision to any person, body or circumstance shall\nbe held invalid, the remainder of this article or the application of\nsuch provision to persons, bodies or circumstances other than those\nconce…

§ 722. Plan for representation. The governing body of each county and\nthe governing body of the city in which a county is wholly contained\nshall place in operation throughout the county a plan for providing\ncounsel to persons charged with a crime or who are entitled to counse…

§ 722-a. Definition of crime. For the purposes of this article, the\nterm "crime" shall mean a felony, misdemeanor, or the breach of any law\nof this state or of any law, local law or ordinance of a political\nsubdivision of this state, other than one that defines a "traffic\nin…

§ 722-b. Compensation and reimbursement for representation. 1. All\ncounsel assigned in accordance with a plan of a bar association\nconforming to the requirements of section seven hundred twenty-two of\nthis article whereby the services of private counsel are rotated and\ncoord…

§ 722-c. Services other than counsel. Upon a finding in an ex parte\nproceeding that investigative, expert or other services are necessary\nand that the defendant or other person described in section two hundred\nforty-nine or section two hundred sixty-two of the family court ac…

§ 722-d. Duration of assignment. Whenever it appears that the\ndefendant is financially able to obtain counsel or to make partial\npayment for the representation or other services, counsel may report\nthis fact to the court and the court may terminate the assignment of\ncounsel …

§ 722-e. Expenses. All expenses for providing counsel and services\nother than counsel hereunder shall be a county charge or in the case of\na county wholly located within a city a city charge to be paid out of an\nappropriation for such purposes. Provided, however, that any suc…

§ 722-f. Annual reports. 1. A public defender appointed pursuant to\narticle eighteen-A of this chapter, a private legal aid bureau or\nsociety designated by a county or city pursuant to subdivision two of\nsection seven hundred twenty-two of this article, an administrator of a\…

§ 725. County superintendent of highways; duties. The county\nsuperintendent of highways shall perform the duties prescribed by law\nrelating to the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways\nand bridges in the county. He shall perform such additional and related\ndu…

§ 750. County commissioner of public welfare; duties. The county\ncommissioner of public welfare shall perform the duties prescribed by\nlaw in the administration of welfare assistance. He shall perform such\nadditional and related duties as may be prescribed by law and directed…

§ 775. Director of weights and measures; duties. The director of\nweights and measures shall perform the duties prescribed by law for the\nenforcement of honest weights and measures. He shall perform such\nadditional and related duties as may be prescribed by law and directed\nb…

§ 800. County service officer; term; duties. The board of supervisors\nmay create the office of county service officer and appoint such officer\nfor the term for which the membership of such board was elected. The\ncounty service officer shall assist members of the armed forces …

§ 825. District attorneys in certain counties. The district attorneys\nof Erie, Monroe and Onondaga counties may each appoint in and for his\ncounty, in the manner provided in section seven hundred two of this\nchapter and with like powers, such number of assistants as shall be\…

§ 826. Regional markets. The board of supervisors of a county located\nwithin any regional market district heretofore or hereafter created by\nlaw may purchase, acquire, or accept by gift lands for regional market\npurposes. Such lands may be situate anywhere within such regiona…

§ 827. Enforcement of environmental conservation law in certain\ncounties. In those counties wherein the state owns a park, forest\npreserve, reforested area, hatchery, nursery, game refuge, or wherein\nthe state has established and controls fire prevention apparatus and\nstruct…

§ 828. Highway construction by local assessment in certain counties.\nThe governing body of any county containing a population of less than\ntwo hundred thousand and adjoining a city of the first class may\nauthorize the establishment of a plan for the grades of streets, avenues…

§ 829. Teachers' training in certain counties. In order to provide an\nadequate number of teachers to be available for employment in the public\nschools in the county, the board of supervisors of any county in which\nis located a college or university having a department for fit…

§ 830. Expenses of district superintendents of schools in certain\ncounties. In the counties of Westchester, Suffolk, Monroe and Erie, the\nboard of supervisors may appropriate and provide for the payment upon\nverified vouchers of expenses of the district superintendent of scho…

§ 831. Soldier burial plots in Dutchess county. The legislature of the\ncounty of Dutchess may authorize the purchase of burial plots and\nprovide for marker settings and perpetual care and maintenance of such\nplots in one or more of the cemeteries of the county of Dutchess for…

§ 832. Burial contracts in Erie county. The board of supervisors of\nthe county of Erie shall have power exclusively, and it shall be its\nduty to contract annually with one or more undertakers for the care,\nremoval and burial of bodies of persons dying within said county, wher…

§ 833. Rifle range in Erie county. The board of supervisors of Erie\ncounty is hereby authorized to purchase land, construct and maintain\nthereon a rifle, machine gun and pistol range primarily for the use of\nNew York national guard, New York guard and New York naval militia. …

§ 834. Social welfare appropriations in Essex county. 1. The board of\nsupervisors of Essex county may annually appropriate such sums as it may\ndeem proper, not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars in any one\nyear, for the support and maintenance of the Junior Achievemen…

§ 834-a. Advance payment of portion of welfare charges to hospitals\nand day care centers. Where a contract has been entered into between a\nsocial services district and a hospital, pursuant to section three\nhundred sixty-seven of the social services law, or between a social\ns…

§ 835. Jefferson county hospital for contagious diseases. The board of\nsupervisors of the county of Jefferson is hereby authorized to maintain\nand operate a hospital in such county for the treatment and control of\ncommunicable diseases and may annually appropriate such sums a…

§ 836. Soldier burial plots in Niagara county. The board of\nsupervisors of the county of Niagara may provide for the perpetual care\nand maintenance of burial plots and burial places of deceased members of\nthe armed forces who shall have been heretofore or may hereafter be\nbu…