New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 22 - JUDICIARY
Subtitle A - JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
Chapter I - Standards and Administrative Policies
Subchapter A - Rules Of The Chief Judge
Part 17 - Judicial Education And Training
Section 17.1 - Visitation of facilities and institutions for detention, treatment, examination and confinement; visitation of residential facilities for victims of dome
Universal Citation: 22 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 17.1
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) In order to ensure that every judge or justice be familiar with those facilities where the judge or justice is authorized to direct the detention, treatment, examination or confinement of any person in connection with Criminal or Family Court proceedings, the following steps shall be taken:
(1) each judge or justice designated in
subdivision (d) of this section, holding office before October 1, 1981, shall
visit a facility or institution of each type specified in subdivision (d) of
this section. To comply with this requirement, visits shall be completed no
later than October 1, 1982, or shall have been made no earlier than January 1,
1979;
(2) each judge
or justice designated in subdivision (d) of this section, who shall assume
office on or after October 1, 1981, shall visit a facility or institution of
each type specified in subdivision (d) of this section. To comply with this
requirement, visits shall be completed no later than one year after the
assumption of office, or shall have been made no earlier than three years
before the assumption of office;
(3) each judge or justice whose term of
office is four years or longer or who is appointed to or elected to consecutive
terms of office that, in the aggregate, equal four years or more and who
regularly sits in a criminal term or in a term with criminal as well as civil
jurisdiction, each judge of the New York City Criminal Court, and each judge of
the Family Court, having complied with the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2)
of this subdivision, shall, within every four years thereafter during the term
or terms of office of said judge or justice, visit at least one facility or
institution of each type specified in subdivision (d) of this
section;
(4) a judge
or justice, for the purposes of this Part, shall be deemed to regularly sit in
a criminal term, or in a term with criminal as well as civil jurisdiction, if
such judge or justice sits in a part of court exercising criminal jurisdiction
for at least one trial term in a year.
(b) The Deputy Chief Administrator of the Courts for the courts outside the City of New York shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with subdivision (a) of this section by the judges and justices of courts outside the City of New York and shall report to the Chief Administrator of the Courts as to the implementation of the provisions thereof at such times and in such form as the Chief Administrator of the Courts shall require.
(c) The Deputy Chief Administrator of the Courts for the courts within the City of New York shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with subdivision (a) of this section by the judges and justices of courts within the City of New York, and shall report to the Chief Administrator of the Courts as to the implementation of the provisions thereof at such times and in such form as the Chief Administrator of the Courts shall require.
(d) The following types of facilities and institutions shall be visited.
(1) Justices of the Supreme
Court, judges of the County Court, and judges of the Court of Claims, regularly
sitting in a criminal term or in a term with criminal as well as civil
jurisdiction, shall visit one facility in each of the following categories:
(i) a facility operated by the
New York State Department of Correctional Services for the confinement of
persons convicted of a felony;
(ii) a facility operated by (a) the City
of New York or (b) a county or municipality outside the City of New York for
the confinement of persons convicted of a misdemeanor or violation;
(iii) a facility operated by
(a) the City of New York or (b) a county or municipality outside the City of
New York for the detention of persons accused of an offense;
(iv) a secure facility
maintained by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services for the
care and confinement of juvenile offenders; and
(v) a facility certified by the
New York State Office of Children and Family Services as a juvenile detention
facility for the reception of children.
(2) Judges of the New York City
Criminal Court shall visit one facility in each of the following categories:
(i) a facility operated by the
New York City Department of Correction for the confinement of persons convicted
of a misdemeanor or violation;
(ii) a facility operated by the New York
City Department of Correction for the detention of persons accused of an
offense; and
(iii) a
facility certified by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services
as a juvenile detention facility for the reception of children.
(3) Judges of the
District Court and judges of the City Court, regularly sitting in a criminal
term or in a term with criminal as well as civil jurisdiction, shall visit one
facility in each of the following categories. Justices of the Town and Village
Courts shall visit one facility in each of the following categories if located
in the county where the justice is sitting:
(i) a facility operated by a county or
municipality for the confinement of persons convicted of a misdemeanor or
violation;
(ii) a
facility operated by a county or municipality for the detention of persons
accused of an offense; and
(iii) a facility certified by the New
York State Office of Children and Family Services as a juvenile detention
facility for the reception of children.
(4) Judges of the Family Court
shall visit one facility in each of the following categories:
(i) a secure facility certified
by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services for the detention
of alleged juvenile delinquents held prior to completion of a Family Court
proceeding;
(ii) a
nonsecure facility certified by the New York State Office of Children and
Family Services for the detention of alleged juvenile delinquents and Persons
In Need of Supervision held prior to completion of a Family Court
proceeding;
(iii) a
facility of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services for the
care, treatment or confinement of juvenile delinquents or Persons In Need of
Supervision;
(iv) a
facility operated by a voluntary authorized agency, as defined by section
371,
subdivision 10(a) of the Social Services Law, for the care and treatment of
children; and
(v)
either (a) or (b):
(a) a
children's psychiatric center or children's unit of a psychiatric center
operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health, or a developmental
center or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded or
developmentally disabled operated by the New York State Office of Mental
Retardation and Developmental Disabilities for the evaluation and treatment of
children; or
(b) a
facility of a county or municipality, or a private institution, to which the
Family Court refers children for evaluation or in which the Family Court places
children for treatment of mental illness or retardation.
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