Title EXC, Executive

§ 244. Hostels and foster homes. 1. The office is hereby authorized to\nprovide or to pay for care in a hostel or foster home approved by the\noffice as suitable for such cases for any probationer or parolee under\nthe age of twenty-one years when the parole board or a judge of …

§ 245. Probation staff training and development. The office of\nprobation and correctional alternatives shall conduct training programs\nfor city, county and state probation personnel, prepare and execute\nprograms of information and education to interest persons in the field\no…

§ 246. State aid for probation services. 1. The program of state aid\nto county probation services shall be administered by the division of\ncriminal justice services with the advice of the state probation\ncommission and the director of the office of probation and correctional\…

§ 248. Establishment of probation scholarships. The office, out of\nmoneys appropriated to it for that purpose, is authorized to grant\nscholarships for graduate training in any course of study that would be\nof substantial value in the field of probation at graduate schools\nlo…

§ 249. Educational or training leaves of absence. The local director\nof probation, chief probation officer, or other head of a probation\ndepartment, bureau or unit, if he is the appointing authority therefor,\nor otherwise such appointing authority, with the approval of the bo…

§ 25. Use of local government resources in a disaster. 1. Upon the\nthreat or occurrence of a disaster, the chief executive of any political\nsubdivision is hereby authorized and empowered to and shall use any and\nall facilities, equipment, supplies, personnel and other resourc…

§ 255. Probation in the city of New York. 1. There is hereby created a\ndepartment of probation in and for the city of New York to have charge\nof all probation work in the supreme, family and criminal courts in the\ncounties of Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond.\n 2. …

§ 256. Local probation departments. 1. Each county shall maintain or\nprovide for a probation agency or agencies to perform probation services\ntherein, including intake, investigation, pre-sentence reports,\nsupervision, conciliation, social treatment and such other functions a…

§ 256-a. Providing information to child protection services. Upon a\ndetermination by a probation agency or department that its records\nregarding an individual presently under the supervision of the agency or\ndepartment are relevant to an investigation of child abuse or\nmaltr…

§ 257. Probation personnel; qualifications and duties. 1. Except as\nmay be otherwise specified in other provisions of law, all salaried\nprobation officers and their supervisors, including the director, of\nevery probation department, agency or service maintained by any county\…

§ 257-a. Civil actions against local department volunteers. 1. For\nthe purposes of this section the term "volunteer" means a person\nauthorized by a local probation department's director of the volunteer\nservices program to participate in the local department's volunteer\nserv…

§ 257-b. Conditional releasees; duties of supervision. 1. It shall be\nthe duty of every probation officer to furnish each person who has been\nordered to his or her supervision pursuant to subdivision two of section\n70.40 of the penal law, with a statement of the conditions of…

* § 257-c. Probation administrative fee. 1. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law, every county and the city of New York, may adopt a\nlocal law requiring individuals currently serving or who shall be\nsentenced to a period of probation upon conviction of any crime under\n…

§ 258. Physical, mental and psychiatric examinations. Every county is\ncharged with the duty to provide when practicable clinical facilities,\nand to adopt necessary rules for the use therefor, for such physical,\nmental and psychiatric examinations and reports as may be within …

§ 259. Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms\nshall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Board" means the state board of parole.\n 2. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of\ncorrections and community supervision.\n 3. "Community supervisio…

§ 259-a. State board of parole; funding. The annual budget submitted\nby the governor shall separately state the recommended appropriations\nfor the state board of parole. Upon enactment, these separately stated\nappropriations for the state board of parole shall not be decrease…

§ 259-b. State board of parole; organization. 1. There shall be in the\ndepartment a state board of parole which shall possess the powers and\nduties hereinafter specified. The board shall function independently of\nthe department regarding all of its decision-making functions, …

§ 259-c. State board of parole; functions, powers and duties. The\nstate board of parole shall: * 1. have the power and duty of determining\nwhich incarcerated individuals serving an indeterminate or determinate\nsentence of imprisonment may be released on parole, or on medical …

§ 259-d. Hearing officers. 1. The state board of parole shall appoint\nand shall have the power to remove, in accordance with the provisions of\nthe civil service law, hearing officers who shall be authorized to\nconduct parole revocation proceedings. Hearing officers shall func…

§ 259-e. Institutional parole services. The department shall provide\ninstitutional parole services. Such services shall include preparation\nof reports and other data required by the state board of parole in the\nexercise of its functions with respect to release on presumptive\…

§ 259-h. Parole eligibility for certain incarcerated individuals\nsentenced for crimes committed prior to September first, nineteen\nhundred sixty-seven. 1. The provisions of this subdivision shall apply\nin any case where a person is under one or more of the following\nsentence…

§ 259-i. Procedures for the conduct of the work of the state board of\nparole.\n 2. Parole. * (a) (i) Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this\nparagraph, at least one month prior to the date on which an incarcerated\nindividual may be paroled pursuant to subdivision one …

§ 259-j. Discharge of sentence. 1. Except where a determinate sentence\nwas imposed for a felony other than a felony defined in article two\nhundred twenty or article two hundred twenty-one of the penal law, if\nthe board of parole is satisfied that an absolute discharge from\np…

§ 259-k. Access to records and institutions. 1. All case files shall\nbe maintained by the department for use by the department and board. The\ndepartment and board and authorized officers and employees thereof shall\nhave complete access to such files and the board of parole sh…

§ 259-l. Cooperation. 1. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of\ncorrections and community supervision to ensure that all officers and\nemployees of the department shall at all times cooperate with the board\nof parole and shall furnish to such members of the board and empl…

§ 259-m. Compacts with other states for out-of-state parolee\nsupervision. 1. The governor is hereby authorized and directed to enter\ninto a compact on behalf of the state of New York with any state of the\nUnited States legally joining therein in the form substantially as\nfol…

* § 259-mm. Interstate compact for adult offender supervision. The\ninterstate compact for adult offender supervision as set forth in this\nsection is hereby adopted, enacted into law and entered into with all\nother jurisdictions joining therein. The compact shall be as follows…

§ 259-o. Interstate hearings for parole violations. 1. For the\npurposes of this section, "preliminary violation hearing" means a\nhearing to determine whether there are reasonable grounds to believe\nthat a person released on parole has violated the conditions of his\nparole.\n…

§ 259-p. Interstate detention. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision\nof law, a defendant subject to section two hundred fifty-nine-mm of this\narticle, may be detained as authorized by the interstate compact for\nadult offender supervision.\n (2) A defendant shall be detained…

§ 259-q. Civil actions against board personnel. 1. No civil action\nshall be brought in any court of the state, except by the attorney\ngeneral on behalf of the state, against any officer or employee of the\nboard of parole or former division of parole, in his personal capacity,…

§ 259-r. Release on medical parole for terminally ill incarcerated\nindividuals. 1. * (a) The board shall have the power to release on\nmedical parole any incarcerated individual serving an indeterminate or\ndeterminate sentence of imprisonment who, pursuant to subdivision two o…

§ 259-s. Release on medical parole for incarcerated individuals\nsuffering significant debilitating illnesses. 1. (a) The board shall\nhave the power to release on medical parole any incarcerated individual\nserving an indeterminate or determinate sentence of imprisonment who,\n…

* § 259-t. Permitted activities. Where any person is granted\npresumptive release, parole, conditional release, release to\npost-release supervision or any other type of supervised release, the\nstate board of parole shall not deem a person to be in violation of and\nthe state b…

* § 259-t. Permitted activities. Where any person is granted\npresumptive release, parole, conditional release, release to\npost-release supervision or any other type of supervised release, the\nstate board of parole shall not deem a person to be in violation of and\nthe state b…

§ 26. Coordination of local disaster preparedness forces and local\ncivil defense forces in disasters. 1. Upon the threat or occurrence of a\ndisaster, the chief executive of a county may coordinate responses for\nrequests for assistance made by the chief executive of any politi…

§ 260. Division of housing and community renewal. The commissioner of\nhousing and community renewal appointed pursuant to the provisions of\nthe public housing law, shall be the head of the division of housing and\ncommunity renewal and shall have and exercise all the functions…

* § 261. Alternatives to incarceration service plans. 1. As used in\nthis article:\n a. "Service plan" or "plan" means a county plan designed to identify\nand provide eligible programs as determined by either an advisory board\nestablished pursuant to this article, or by an exis…

* § 262. Office assistance; plan; approval. 1. Upon request of either\nthe county executive or the advisory board, through the chairperson, the\noffice shall assist the county in the development of its plan by\nproviding technical assistance either directly or through contract w…

* § 263. Reports. The advisory board, through its chairperson, shall\nsubmit to the office a quarterly report relative to the status of\ncompliance with the plan, pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated\nby the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services upon…

* § 264. Noncompliance with plan. 1. If at any time the office\ndetermines that a county plan is not being complied with, it shall\nnotify the advisory board through the chairperson and the state\ncommission of correction in writing of such fact, and it shall withhold\nany porti…

* § 265. Further authority of the office; state assistance. 1. In\nadministering the provisions of this article, the office may perform\nsuch other and further acts and recommend to the commissioner of the\ndivision of criminal justice services such rules and regulations it\ndee…

* § 266. Additional authority of the office; state assistance;\napproved amendments for eligible alcohol and substance abuse programs.\n 1. Counties and the city of New York may submit approved amendments\nfor alcohol and substance abuse programs as defined in this article as\np…

* § 267. Office reports. The office shall submit to the governor, the\ntemporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the\nchairman of the senate crime and correction committee and the chairman\nof the assembly committee on codes by October first of each year it…

§ 27. Continuity of local governments. 1. Every county, except those\nwholly contained within a city, every city, every town and every village\nshall have power to provide by local law, and every other public\ncorporation, district corporation or public benefit corporation shall…

§ 270. Division of alcoholic beverage control; state liquor authority.\nThe head of the alcoholic beverage control division shall be the state\nliquor authority whose members shall consist of a chairman and two\ncommissioners, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with …

§ 271. Salaries; expenses. The chairman and the other members of the\nauthority shall receive a salary to be fixed by the governor within the\namounts appropriated therefor. Each member of the authority shall also\nbe entitled to his expenses actually and necessarily incurred by…

§ 272. Removal. Any member of the authority may be removed by the\ngovernor for cause after an opportunity to be heard. A statement of the\ncause of his removal shall be filed by the governor in the office of the\nsecretary of state.\n

§ 273. Vacancies; quorum. (a) In the event of a vacancy caused by\ndeath, resignation, removal or disability of a commissioner, the vacancy\nshall be filled by the governor by and with the advice and consent of\nthe senate for the unexpired term.\n (b) In the event of a vacancy …

§ 274. Officers; employees; offices. The authority shall have power to\nappoint any necessary deputies, counsels, assistants, investigators, and\nother employees within the limits provided by appropriation.\nInvestigators so employed by the authority shall be deemed to be peace\…

§ 28. State declaration of disaster emergency. 1. Whenever the\ngovernor, on his own initiative or pursuant to a request from one or\nmore chief executives, finds that a disaster has occurred or may be\nimminent for which local governments are unable to respond adequately,\nhe s…