New York Prosecutors Training Institute
NYPTI Law - NYS Statutes
ยง 155-a. Admission to bail. A desk officer in charge at a police
station, county jail or police headquarters, or any of his or her
superior officers, may, in such place, take cash bail for his or her
appearance before the appropriate court the next morning from any person
arrested pursuant to a warrant issued by the family court; provided that
such arrest occurs between eleven o'clock in the morning and eight
o'clock the next morning, except that in the city of New York bail shall
be taken between two o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock the next
morning. The amount of such cash bail shall be the amount fixed in the
warrant of arrest.
