New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
Chapter V - Procedures for Implementing the Standards of Incarcerated Individual Behavior and for Granting Good Behavior Time Allowances
Subchapter D - Merit Time
Part 280 - Procedures For Granting Merit Time
Section 280.3 - Effect on the sentence
Universal Citation: 7 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 280.3
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Indeterminate sentences.
(1) The merit time
allowance is one-third of the minimum term or period imposed by the court for
an inmate convicted of an A-1 felony under article 220 of the Penal law and
one-sixth of the minimum term or period imposed by the court for an inmate
convicted of any other eligible offense.
(2) An inmate serving a sentence for any
Class A-II through Class E drug offense may earn supplemental merit time in the
amount of an additional one- sixth of the minimum period of the sentence
imposed for the drug felony if he or she has either:
(i) completed two or more of the four
possible merit program objectives listed in section
280.2(d)(1)(ii)
of this Part; or
(ii) completed one
of the four and also successfully maintained employment in a work release
program or other continuous temporary release program for a period of not less
than three months.
(b) Determinate sentences. The merit time allowance is an additional one-seventh of the determinate term imposed by the court for an eligible offense.
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