Senate Bill S2870

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires town attorneys in the county of Nassau to collect fines

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S2870 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7232
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §420.20, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6740, A6528
2021-2022: S206, A4428
2023-2024: A3044

2019-S2870 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires town attorneys to institute proceedings to collect fines, restitution or reparation in towns contained within Nassau county.

2019-S2870 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2870 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2870
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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  requiring
   town  attorneys to institute proceedings to collect fines, restitution
   or reparation in towns contained within Nassau county

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 420.20 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by
 chapter 290 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
 §  420.20  Collection  of  fines, restitution or reparation imposed upon
              corporations.
   Where a corporation is sentenced to pay a fine, restitution or repara-
 tion, the fine, restitution or reparation  must  be  paid  at  the  time
 sentence  is imposed.   If the fine, restitution or reparation is not so
 paid, it may be collected in the same manner as a judgment  in  a  civil
 action,  and if execution issued upon such judgment be returned unsatis-
 fied an action may be brought in the name of the people of the state  of
 New  York  to procure a judgment sequestering the property of the corpo-
 ration, as provided by the business corporation law.  It is the duty  of
 the attorney general in all criminal proceedings prosecuted by him, and,
 in  all  other proceedings, the county attorney for counties outside the
 city of New York, OR THE TOWN ATTORNEY FOR ALL PROCEEDINGS PROSECUTED BY
 SUCH TOWN ATTORNEY FOR TOWNS CONTAINED WITHIN NASSAU COUNTY, and, in the
 city of New York the corporation counsel of the city  of  New  York,  to
 institute proceedings to collect such fine, restitution or reparation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09109-01-9

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