New York Criminal Procedure Law Section 510.20 - Application for recognizance or bail; making and determination thereof in general.

510.20  Application for recognizance or bail; making and determination

thereof in general.

1. Upon any occasion when a court is required to issue a securing order with respect to a principal, or at any time when a principal is confined in the custody of the sheriff as a result of a previously issued securing order, he may make an application for recognizance or bail.

2. Upon such application, the principal must be accorded an opportunity to be heard and to contend that an order of recognizance or bail must or should issue, that the court should release him on his own recognizance rather than fix bail, and that if bail is fixed it should be in a suggested amount and form.


Last modified: February 3, 2019