255 – Probation in the City of New York.
§ 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 head of […]
256 – Local Probation Departments.
§ 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 are assigned to probation agencies pursuant to law. 2. The board of supervisors or county legislatures of a […]
256-A – Providing Information to Child Protection Services.
§ 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 maltreatment conducted by a child protective service pursuant to title six of article six […]
257 – Probation Personnel; Qualifications and Duties.
§ 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 city shall be in the competitive class of the civil service. No person shall […]
257-A – Civil Actions Against Local Department Volunteers.
§ 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 program. 2. A local probation department may provide an attorney for and pay such […]
257-B – Conditional Releasees; Duties of Supervision.
§ 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 release and to instruct such person with […]
257-C – Probation Administrative Fee.
* § 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 article thirty-one of the vehicle and traffic law to […]
258 – Physical, Mental and Psychiatric Examinations.
§ 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 required scope of efficient probation investigation and supervision.