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Senate Bill S3054
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes 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
co-Sponsors
(R, C) Senate District
(R, C, Ind, WF) Senate District
(R) Senate District
2009-S3054 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Criminal Procedure Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง120.10, 120.50 & 690.25, CP L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
S2377
2013-2014: S3549
2009-S3054 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3054 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to authorizing peace officers designated by the superintendent of insurance to execute arrest warrants and search warrants PURPOSE : To facilitate the investigation and prosecution of insurance fraud in New York State by authorizing insurance fraud investigators to execute arrest warrants and search warrants. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : This bill would amend sections 120.10 and 120.50 of the criminal procedure law to authorize Insurance Department fraud investigators to execute arrest warrants. This bill would also amend section 690.25 of the criminal procedure law to authorize fraud investigators to execute search warrants. JUSTIFICATION : Auto insurance premiums are increasing, particularly down state, and insurance fraud is the main cause of these increases. Insurance fraud costs New York consumers over $1 billion per year in increased premiums and this number continues to grow. We need to do all we can to ensure that the criminals profiting from insurance fraud are put in jail where they belong and this bill will further this goal by
2009-S3054 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3054 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 10, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SEWARD, LARKIN, MORAHAN, VOLKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to authorizing peace officers designated by the superintendent of insurance to execute arrest warrants and search warrants THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 120.10 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: S 120.10 Warrant of arrest; definition, function, form and content. 1. A warrant of arrest is a process issued by a local criminal court directing a police officer OR A PEACE OFFICER DESIGNATED BY THE SUPER- INTENDENT OF INSURANCE to arrest a defendant designated in an accusatory instrument filed with such court and to bring him before such court in connection with such instrument. The sole function of a warrant of arrest is to achieve a defendant's court appearance in a criminal action for the purpose of arraignment upon the accusatory instrument by which such action was commenced. 2. A warrant of arrest must be subscribed by the issuing judge and must state or contain (a) the name of the issuing court, and (b) the date of issuance of the warrant, and (c) the name or title of an offense charged in the underlying accusatory instrument, and (d) the name of the defendant to be arrested or, if such be unknown, any name or description by which he can be identified with reasonable certainty, and (e) the police officer or officers OR PEACE OFFICERS DESIGNATED BY THE SUPER- INTENDENT OF INSURANCE to whom the warrant is addressed, and (f) a direction that such officer arrest the defendant and bring him before the issuing court. 3. A warrant of arrest may be addressed to a classification of police officers, or to two or more classifications thereof, as well as to a EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07365-01-9
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