Bill Text: NY A04025 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that upon finding a corporate defendant liable for a criminal charge, the district attorney may simultaneously file a civil judgment against such corporate defendant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-06 - held for consideration in codes [A04025 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04025-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4025
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 28, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT, GRAF, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to corporate
defendants
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 600.20 of the criminal procedure law is amended to
2 read as follows:
3 S 600.20 Corporate defendants; prosecution thereof.
4 At all stages of a criminal action, from the commencement thereof
5 through sentence, a corporate defendant must appear by counsel. Upon
6 failure of appearance at the time such defendant is required to enter a
7 plea to the accusatory instrument, the court may enter a plea of guilty
8 and impose sentence. UPON FINDING A CORPORATE DEFENDANT LIABLE, THE
9 DISTRICT ATTORNEY MAY SIMULTANEOUSLY FILE A CIVIL JUDGMENT AGAINST SUCH
10 CORPORATE DEFENDANT.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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