Title EXC, Executive

§ 243. Supervision of administration of local probation and correctional alternatives. 1. The office shall exercise general supervision over the administration of probation services throughout the state, including probation in family courts and shall collect statistical and othe…

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

§ 245. Probation staff training and development. The office of probation and correctional alternatives shall conduct training programs for city, county and state probation personnel, prepare and execute programs of information and education to interest persons in the field of pr…

§ 246. State aid for probation services. 1. The program of state aid to county probation services shall be administered by the division of criminal justice services with the advice of the state probation commission and the director of the office of probation and correctional alt…

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

§ 249. Educational or training leaves of absence. The local director of probation, chief probation officer, or other head of a probation department, bureau or unit, if he is the appointing authority therefor, or otherwise such appointing authority, with the approval of the board…

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

§ 255. Probation in the city of New York. 1. There is hereby created a department of probation in and for the city of New York to have charge of all probation work in the supreme, family and criminal courts in the counties of Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond. 2. The h…

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

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

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

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

§ 257-b. Conditional releasees; duties of supervision. 1. It shall be the duty of every probation officer to furnish each person who has been ordered to his or her supervision pursuant to subdivision two of section 70.40 of the penal law, with a statement of the conditions of re…

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

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

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

§ 259-a. State board of parole; funding. The annual budget submitted by the governor shall separately state the recommended appropriations for the state board of parole. Upon enactment, these separately stated appropriations for the state board of parole shall not be decreased b…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 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 was imposed for a felony other than a felony defined in article two hundred twenty or article two hundred twenty-one of the penal law, if the board of parole is satisfied that an absolute discharge from presu…

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

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

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

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

§ 259-o. Interstate hearings for parole violations. 1. For the purposes of this section, "preliminary violation hearing" means a hearing to determine whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person released on parole has violated the conditions of his parole. 2. Wh…

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

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

§ 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 suffering significant debilitating illnesses. 1. (a) The board shall have the power to release on medical parole any incarcerated individual serving an indeterminate or determinate sentence of imprisonment who, purs…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* § 264. Noncompliance with plan. 1. If at any time the office determines that a county plan is not being complied with, it shall notify the advisory board through the chairperson and the state commission of correction in writing of such fact, and it shall withhold any portion o…

* § 265. Further authority of the office; state assistance. 1. In administering the provisions of this article, the office may perform such other and further acts and recommend to the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services such rules and regulations it deems n…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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