Title CNT, County

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

§ 671. General duties of coroner, or coroner and coroner's physician, or medical examiner; additional duties may be directed. 1. The coroner, or if he is not a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this state, the coroner and a coroner's physician, together, or in coun…

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

§ 673. Deaths concerning which a coroner, coroner and coroner's physician or medical examiner has jurisdiction to investigate. 1. A coroner or medical examiner has jurisdiction and authority to investigate the death of every person dying within his county, or whose body is found…

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

§ 674-a. Manner of investigation when decedent is a donor of an anatomical gift. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if the decedent who is under the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner as defined in this chapter is a donor of all or part of his …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 702. Assistant district attorneys. 1. The board of supervisors shall have power to authorize the district attorney to appoint one or more assistant district attorneys. Every such appointment shall be in a writing filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk. The person…

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

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

§ 703-a. Employment of stenographer. Whenever the district attorney of any county in the performance of his duties shall be required to prosecute a contested criminal proceeding before a magistrate of a town or village, unless pursuant to law a stenographer be regularly employed…

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

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

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

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

§ 717. Public defender; duties. 1. The public defender shall represent, without charge, at the request of the defendant, or by order of the court with the consent of the defendant, each indigent defendant who is charged with a crime as defined in section seven hundred twenty-two…

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

§ 719. Expenses. If a public defender serves more than one county, the expenses of salaries, maintenance and operation of his office shall be shared by the participating counties in accordance with the provisions of the agreement establishing the office. Expenses incidental to i…

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

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

§ 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 term "crime" shall mean a felony, misdemeanor, or the breach of any law of this state or of any law, local law or ordinance of a political subdivision of this state, other than one that defines a "traffic infrac…

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

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

§ 722-d. Duration of assignment. Whenever it appears that the defendant is financially able to obtain counsel or to make partial payment for the representation or other services, counsel may report this fact to the court and the court may terminate the assignment of counsel or a…

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

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

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

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

§ 775. Director of weights and measures; duties. The director of weights and measures shall perform the duties prescribed by law for the enforcement of honest weights and measures. He shall perform such additional and related duties as may be prescribed by law and directed by th…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 834. Social welfare appropriations in Essex county. 1. The board of supervisors of Essex county may annually appropriate such sums as it may deem proper, not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year, for the support and maintenance of the Junior Achievement F…

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

§ 835. Jefferson county hospital for contagious diseases. The board of supervisors of the county of Jefferson is hereby authorized to maintain and operate a hospital in such county for the treatment and control of communicable diseases and may annually appropriate such sums as i…

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