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Code · New York · Correction · Local Correctional Facilities

§ 509. Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed visits.

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§ 509. Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed
visits. The sheriff of a local correctional facility or his or her
designee may permit any incarcerated individual confined in his or her
local correctional facility to attend the funeral of his or her father,
mother, guardian or former guardian, child, brother, sister, husband,
wife, grandparent, grandchild, ancestral uncle or ancestral aunt within
the state, or to visit such individual during his or her illness if
death be imminent; but the exercise of such power shall be subject to
such rules and regulations as the commission shall prescribe, respecting
the granting of such permission, duration of absence from the
institution, custody, transportation and care of the incarcerated
individual, and guarding against escape.
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