Assembly Actions -
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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Jan 27, 2009 |
referred to codes |
Assembly Bill A3349
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
PERRY
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-A3349 (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-A3349 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Authorizes only the appointment of another district attorney or the attorney general as a special district attorney, in cases where the district attorney has a conflict of interest or excuses himself and prohibits the appointment of private attorneys as special district attorneys.
2009-A3349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3349 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 27, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to providing for appointment of special district attorney THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 1 of section 701 of the county law, paragraph (a) as amended and paragraph (b) as added by chapter 560 of the laws of 1991, are amended to read as follows: (a) [appoint some attorney at law having an office in or residing in the county, or any adjoining county, to act as special district attorney during the absence, inability or disqualification of the district attor- ney and such assistants as he or she may have; or (b)] appoint a district attorney of any other county within the judi- cial department or of any county adjoining the county wherein the action is triable to act as special district attorney, provided such district attorney agrees to accept appointment by such criminal court during such absence, inability or disqualification of the district attorney and such assistants as he or she may have; OR (B) APPOINT THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO ACT AS SPECIAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY. S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 701 of the county law, as added by chap- ter 560 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows: 3. Where a special district attorney appointed under this section is a district attorney OR THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, he or she may direct the exercise of such powers and the performance of such duties by any assistant in his or her office in any case in which he or she serves as special district attorney to the same extent permitted by law in any case in which he or she serves as district attorney OR AS ATTORNEY-GEN- ERAL. S 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02107-01-9
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