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 280.5 - Effect of merit time

(a) Any inmate who is granted a merit time allowance will appear before the Board of Parole for possible release on parole at a date computed by subtracting the merit time allowance from his or her parole eligibility date.

(b) If the Board of Parole grants the inmate parole, he or she will be released to parole supervision.

(c) If parole is withheld by the board, the inmate will again be considered by the board for possible release when he or she reaches the original parole eligibility date.